Thomas Sowell Quotes
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Quotes to Explore
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.
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I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
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Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
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This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
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It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
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TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!
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Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
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It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
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All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
