All money is a matter of belief.
- Adam Smith Quote

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
- Adam Smith Quote

Defense is superior to opulence.
- Adam Smith Quote

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
- Adam Smith Quote

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
- Adam Smith Quote

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
- Adam Smith Quote

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
- Adam Smith Quote

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
- Adam Smith Quote

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
- Adam Smith Quote

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
- Adam Smith Quote

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
- Adam Smith Quote

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
- Adam Smith Quote

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
- Adam Smith Quote

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
- Adam Smith Quote

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
- Adam Smith Quote

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
- Adam Smith Quote

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
- Adam Smith Quote

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
- Adam Smith Quote

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
- Adam Smith Quote

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
- Adam Smith Quote

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eyes is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
- Adam Smith Quote