Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

How can one know anything at all about people?

A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.