23 Quotations by Adam Smith
- 1. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour a ...
- 2. All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vi ...
- 3. Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
- 4. Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
- 5. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, ...
- 6. Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this -- one dog does not change a bone wi ...
- 7. Man, an animal that makes bargains.
- 8. Mankind are animals that make bargains, no other animal does this.
- 9. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poo ...
- 10. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversatio ...
- 11. Resentment seems to have been given to us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the ...
- 12. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
- 13. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, an ...
- 14. The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; a ...
- 15. The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, ...
- 16. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are pe ...
- 17. The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tr ...
- 18. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is th ...
- 19. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight ...
- 20. Venture upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of ...
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