Knowing People Quotes

“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“People skills are very crucial for the purpose of proper team building.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“To know people really, you must catch them in their very unhappy times! If they treat you well, then you can be sure that they are good people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“And were they happy together? Sally asked ...; for, she admitted, she knew nothing about them, only jumped to conclusions, as one does, for what can one know even of the people one lives with every day? she asked. Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I don't like knowing people in the context of things. Oh, that's the person I work out with. That's the person I'm in a book club with. That's the person I did that show with. Because once the context ends, so does the friendship.

I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately--without context, without boxes--and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I wish I knew more about people, besides the trivial, superficial things - I wish I knew something essential about each and every person. Perhaps others know it, everyone except me. And what's the essential thing in me? Layer after layer of thought and acquired ideas, complexes, memories, inhibitions and, deep inside, a shriveled-up seed that long ago lost its growing power.”
― Ebba Haslund, Nothing Happened

“You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada