Adam Smith Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

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

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it is enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Every man lives by exchanging.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

It 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.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.