Famous Adam Smith Quotes

  • of their passions in the same object at that particular time. – Adam Smith

    of their passions in the same object at that particular time.– Adam Smith

  • All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. – Adam Smith

    All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.– Adam Smith

  • What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. – Adam Smith

    What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.– Adam Smith

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

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

  • Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary. – Adam Smith

    Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.– Adam Smith

  • In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. – Adam Smith

    In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.– Adam Smith

  • No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

    No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

  • All money is a matter of belief. – Adam Smith

    All money is a matter of belief.– Adam Smith

  • Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. – Adam Smith

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