Adam Smith Quote by Richard H. Thaler

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.”

— Bryant McGill

“The concept of a weary severed hand, exhausted from relentless creeping, made no sense.”

— Dean Koontz

“And what is strangest of all, most unnatural of all, is that the finger hasn't got the slightest desire to be on the hand,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How the right hand became disabled would be a long story for the left to tell,” he wrote to William Stephens Smith. “It was…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element- direct observation.”

— Henry James

“I wondered what it was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I hold in my hand a million ideas and more. But if I am puzzled as to why they have never leapt out of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

— Anonymous

“I knew, suddenly, that I was someone else, with more elements. It surprised me that the touching of hands could do that: reveal to…

— Benjamin Nugent

“George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw…

— Mette Ivie Harrison