Author: Adam Smith

Quotes

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

- Adam Smith

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

- Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

- Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

- Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

- Adam Smith

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

- Adam Smith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

- Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

- Adam Smith

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

- Adam Smith

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