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 | 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 19 likes |
 | 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 |
 | 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. |
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 |
