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Quotations
 | He who knows others is wise, but he who knows himself is enlightened. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 13 likes |
 | To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 6 likes |
 | It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 6 likes |
 | People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 5 likes |
 | He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
 | Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 5 likes |
| If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
 | When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 5 likes |
 | Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes –but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 5 likes |
 | What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 4 likes |
 | A first impression is always right, especially when it is bad. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 4 likes |
 | Happy people are poor psychologists. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not understand others. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 2 likes |
 | Women prefer men who take them without understanding them, to men who understand them without taking them. — Marcel Prevost, 1862-1941, French writer 2 likes |
 | There are too many screws, wheels and valves in each of us for us to be able to judge each other by first impressions or by two or three external signs. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 2 likes |
 | People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 1 likes |
 | If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. |
 | Women read each other at a single glance. |
| Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. |
 | It is not possible to read a person at first sight. The virtues are usually covered by the veil of modesty, while the flaws wear the mask of hypocrisy. |
 | Human thought is by no means as private as it seems, and all that you need to read somebody else’s mind is the willingness to read your own. |
 | I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you. |
| I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common? — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | He was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | None knows the weight of another’s burthen. |
 | The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. |
 | Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us. — Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist |
Funny Quotes
| I want to reach your mind where is it currently located? — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
 | Nobody knows what you think, but [everybody] sees what you do. Ουδεὶς ό νοείς μεν οίδεν, ό δε ποιείς βλέπει. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 8 likes |
 | The lion from a single claw. Εξ όνυχος τον λέοντα. — Alcaeus of Mytilene, 7th-6th cent. BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet (One can detect ability or judge someone from a small detail) 3 likes |
