Neil Peart Quotes

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

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.

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

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

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

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

How can one know anything at all about people?

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

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 love, I love human beings, studying them.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

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

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

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.