Author: Adam Smith

Quotes

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

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

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

- Adam Smith

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

- Adam Smith

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

- Adam Smith

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

- Adam Smith

All money is a matter of belief.

All money is a matter of belief.

- 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

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

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