Arithmetic Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image “I have no faith in political arithmetic.” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arithmetic Faith Math Mathematical Mathematics Political Politics
Politics does the equivalent of constantly trying to reinvent children's arithmetic and botching it. It does not build reliable foundations of knowledge. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The worth of a politics comes from its application to all, and I think part of why so many have lost faith in politics… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work. — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't. — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me. — Volodymyr Zelensky 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
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting,… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
