Human Nature Quotes

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

We, humans, are so tortured by not properly guessing what will make us happy.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Humans are part of nature, and if we are not doing well, then nature is not doing well, because we are nature.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

I’ve known for a long time that they’re a bunch of idiots.