Interpersonal Insight Quotes

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

I've always been a keen observer of people.

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.

One friend said, "Donnie Darko movie was weird!" And I thought, "Hmm. I don't think we're as good of friends as I thought." It's not like I disliked him for it; it just meant we weren't on the same page I thought we were. Because I can't imagine watching that film and not being moved to tears.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

Finding out what people are really like is exciting.

I think to perfectly understand somebody is to predict their next move.

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.

Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. ‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.

And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.

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

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

How can one know anything at all about people?