"This is one of those cases in which……" — Adam Smith
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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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 Baffled Quotes
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry…
— Robert Browning
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were…
— Robert Browning
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused…
— Julia Cameron
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The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to…
— John Allen Paulos
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A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists…
— William Broad
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The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices,…
— Unknown Author
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and…
— Samuel Crompton
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
— John Fowles
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