Anna Freud Quotes

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

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.

I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.

You must look into people as well as at them.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other 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.

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

I've always been a keen observer of people.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

I love to learn about people.

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

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.