Understanding Humans Quotes

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

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

I learned a lot about the law at Harvard Law School, but no one taught me about why a 20-year old black male in a tough neighborhood feels like he needs to be armed. Nobody taught me about what attracts kids to join gangs.... It is difficult to stand in judgment of other human beings without understanding human beings.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?