Thomas Sowell Quotes

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

Thomas Sowell

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• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Interest

• If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Interest
  • Killing
  • Probably

• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Value
  • Interest
  • Finance

• What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Interest

• It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Interest
  • Expert

• Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Different
  • Decision
  • inspirational

• One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Opinion

• I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Art
  • Interest
  • Image

• The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • Music
  • Interest
  • Rhythm

• Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Life
  • Long
  • Talent

• An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Interest

• When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Interest
  • Questions

• The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Interest
  • Rule

• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Interest
  • Slave
  • Bourgeoisie

• The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society
  • Idea
  • Interest

• I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Fun
  • Findings
  • Planes

• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Thinking
  • Evil
  • Interest

• I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Philosophy
  • Found
  • Presume

• I always thought my big brother was the coolest. We were very close when I was young, and we still are in many ways! He was a very open-minded, urban guy with an outdoorsy edge. He is mostly responsible for exposing me to art and culture.

  

  Rekha Sharma
  • Culture
  • Always
  • Brother

• Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

  

  Sarojini Naidu
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Sleep

• People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Interest
  • Findings
  • Promoting