Anita Brookner Quotes

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.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

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

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

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.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

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'm insatiably curious about human nature.

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

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

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.

A good deal of our politics is psychological.

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

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

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

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

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

I'm very interested in people, in general.