Timothy Leary Quotes

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.

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

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.

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

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

Good history is a portal to the past.

The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

I am an observant. I like to observe people.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Culture is your operating system.

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

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.