Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
ADAM SMITHThe disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
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Labour 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.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
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