Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. - Adam Smith 1 Share Now -
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. - Adam Smith 2 Share Now -
Great 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. - Adam Smith 3 Share Now -
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. - Adam Smith 4 Share Now -
Poor 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. - Adam Smith 5 Share Now -
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. - Adam Smith 8 Share Now -
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. - Adam Smith 9 Share Now -
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. - Adam Smith 10 Share Now -
