Quotes by Adam Smith

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the...

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the...

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to...

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

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so,...

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the...

#Adventure, #Chance

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog...

#Animals, #Business, #Men

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that...

#Benevolence

Defense is superior to opulence.

#Defense

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

#Enthusiasm

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

#Imagination