E. M. Forster Quotes

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

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

I think that's the most important part of doing this job, is learning different personality types. I mean, it's kind of like sociology or psychology in a sense. With that, and with every project I do, I think I'm able to pull something away that further makes me understand humanity in a way I didn't before.

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

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

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.

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

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

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

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

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

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing about things that already exist. But in the sciences, you're discovering things that no one has known before. Ultimately I chose psychology because it seemed to combine science with things that I liked to think about.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

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

I love the human mind.