Adam Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image “He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adam Economics Ends Hands Ignorance Intention Invisible Invisible hand Nations Protectionism Public interest Self interest Unintended consequences Wealth of nations
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can… — R. C. Sherriff Copy Share Image
“He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There exists no ”invisible hand“—that was always an unfortunate turn of phrase—but billions of highly visible fingers, doing, purely for personal gain, what others… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
“Finally, someone had seen him. And what had he done? Let her get away. Undermined by his disgusting human anatomy. It had just been… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through Adam Woods,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
