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
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
- Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
- One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
- Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
- 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 takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
- 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.
- As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
- 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.
- The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Best Quotes
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
- By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
- You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.
- My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
- War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
- The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
- My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.