Thomas Sowell Quotes, Thoughts and Image
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Some things must be done on faith, but the most dangerous kind of faith is that which masquerades as ‘science.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
But life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of those options.
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.