Quotes by : Adam Smith

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually....

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand,....

If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and....

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

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest....

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling....

People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation....

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the....

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous....

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by....