Mark Twain Quotes

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

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

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

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.

I always feel like people in general are much weirder and insane than anybody really wants to admit. How dare somebody watch anything and go, 'That's not real!' Go on the subway. For five minutes.

People think I'm nuts.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

A good deal of our politics is psychological.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

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

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

I really do love psychology and philosophy but I'm no professional at these things. Because I love seeing the true side of humanity, as I've continued that, I have ultimately lent towards philosophy and psychology but it is not something in which I try to study.

Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.

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 [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.