It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Quote by Thomas Sowell
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
- In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
- The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
- It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
- Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
- People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
- The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
- Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
- People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Best Quotes
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
- One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
- Electricity is really just organized lightning.
- Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.