Quotes by Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

All money is a matter of belief.

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.

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.