"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
― Adam Smith
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Imagination
― Adam Smith
More From Adam Smith
- "Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."
- "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
- "Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
More In Imagination
- "Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; And then do it."― Duane Michals
- "The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."― Charlie Chaplin
- "There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."― Edith Wharton