Adam Smith's Profile
Brief about Adam Smith: By info that we know Adam Smith was born at 1970-01-01. And also Adam Smith is Scottish Economist.
Some Adam Smith's quotes. Goto "Adam Smith's quotation" section for more.This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Tags: Baffled, Cases, FactsThe theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Tags: After, Greatest, OpinionGreat 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.
Tags: Ambition, Great, RealPoor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Tags: God, Good, HumorIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Tags: Business, Expect, InterestNo society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Tags: Happy, Poor, SocietyTo feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Tags: Human, Nature, OthersLabour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Tags: Money, Original, WealthScience is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Tags: Enthusiasm, Great, ScienceAs soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Tags: Country, Love, MenThe 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.
Tags: Another, Finance, MenMan is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Tags: Another, Dog, MakesOn the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Tags: City, Pass, RoadLittle else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Tags: Else, Justice, PeaceVirtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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