<< Back to Home
The station has 6,411 Quotes from 1,448 Famous People
Alphabetical Index of Speakers

Recently Added:
"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

Popular Quotes
"The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from"
    -- Adam Smith
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."
    -- Albert Einstein


Quotes by Topic
Share on Facebook  |  Bookmark and Share

Adam Smith Quotes

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.Get Image

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.Get Image

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 self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Get Image

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Get Image

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)Get Image




Browse more quotes by famous person's name: