Lewis Thomas Quotes

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

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

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

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

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.