Adam Smith quotes and words of wisdom

"The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster."
Found in the topic Defeat.

"The market will not go up unless it goes up, nor will it go down unless it goes down, and it will stay the same unless it does either."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent Affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
Found in the topic Housework.

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm And superstition."
Found in the topic Science.

"It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society."
Found in the topic Easy.

"I have no faith in political arithmetic."
Found in the topic Perfection.

"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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages."
Found in the topic Self.

Interesting Quotes

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.Henry Ford - US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)