Paul Johnson Quotes

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

The true science and study of man is man.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.