Thomas Sowell Quotes

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

Thomas Sowell

Quotes to Explore

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

F. Murray Abraham
- Picture
- Thought
- End
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Adam Arkin
- You
- Yourself
- Isolation
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

Harold H. Greene
- Trying
- Law
- Justice
I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

Madeline Carroll
- Me
- Boy
- Torture
I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

Fawn Hall
- Myself
- Interested
I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

Irvin D. Yalom
- Up
- Great
- Writing