Tess Gerritsen Quotes

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?

Italians think with their heads.

I don't like new environments. I don't like being around a lot of new people. It makes me uncomfortable.

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.

I'm not too good when exposed to people

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.