Happiness Quote by Steven D. Levitt

“The theme of Smith’s first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. “How selfish soever man may be supposed,”…

— Steven D. Levitt

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

“Adam Smith expanded on this notion by saying that a person pursing his own selfish interests may be “led by an invisible hand to…

— Sean Masaki Flynn

“Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy…

— Roger Scruton

“Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.”

— J. W. Lord

“his very benevolence is selfish;”

— Walter Scott

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that…

— Jane Austen

“...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded, that true happiness arose from the friendship…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he…

— Wallace D. Wattles

The all wise Creator of man imprest certain laws on his nature. A desire of happiness, and of society, are two of those laws.…

— John Dickinson

“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Selfishness may result in one's sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.”

— Eraldo Banovac