Baffled Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image “This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baffled Cases Facts Imagination
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The thing with thoughts is that they are exactly that - they aren't facts. — Luke Campbell Copy Share Image
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination. — Virginia Woolf 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
If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you." "Who's Magnus?" Max inquired. "He's a warlock," said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
