Knowing People Quotes

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

There is a profound gap between meeting a person and knowing a person, and that holds true for the difference between visiting and residing.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.