“Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.” HumansLittlesDoeTodayGamesOne ThingStreetsHuman NatureWallAccountsStrikesYesterdayContemporaryPanicRepetitionSpeculationIndulgeIndulge InSpeculators Book:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.” HumansPsychologyTroubleHuman NatureAccounts Author:Ruth Rendell
“A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.” MenHumansFactsAgeNationsInterestViewsCommonPrinciplesSacrificeMankindHuman NatureSucceedCapableBuiltAdvantageAccountsConstitutionInstitutionsVainConvinceMaximsGoverningCommon GoodDepravityConvince Us Author:George Washington
“All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties.” MenHumansMayStillsPhilosophySeemsRunningScienceLyingReligionNaturalGreaterHuman NatureReturnAccountsRelationMathematicsWideDependentFacultyPassagesJudgedNatural PhilosophyReturn Back Author:David Hume
“[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.” KnowsMenScienceFeltHuman NatureGrewGrew UpMachinesAccountsDiscipleFascinationGodlikePower Man Author:Charles Lindbergh