Minna Antrim Quotes

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

You must look into people as well as at them.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.