Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

There is no accounting for human beings.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

Loose cannon

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

Strange are the ways of human behavior.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.