"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and..." - Adam Smith

💗 Compassion

“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”

— Adam Smith

The guy famous for economics actually thought our greatest achievement was empathy, not wealth. Funny how the deepest truths keep pointing us back to caring for each other.

More from Adam Smith

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

— Adam Smith

“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

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

— Adam Smith

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the members are poor and miserable”

— Adam Smith