Thomas Sowell Famous Quotes
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell Quotations
Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
Burmese Proverb
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had."
I F Stone
"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part."
Michael J Gelb
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix
"When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
Benjamin Disraeli
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr