"The learned ignore the evidence of their senses……" — Adam Smith
"The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination."
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54 Quotes by Adam Smith
Adam Smith has 54 quotes on this site.
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the…
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but…
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and…
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the…
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by…
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found…
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All money is a matter of belief.
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More Coherence Quotes
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance…
— Christopher Alexander
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time…
— Octavio Paz
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...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace,…
— Robert Adams
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From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual…
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's…
— Henry Wessel, Jr.
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We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and…
— Pope Francis
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The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms,…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian…
— John Stott
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In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an…
— John O'Donohue
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