Thomas Sowell Quotes

Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.

Thomas Sowell

Quotes to Explore

I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

Kat Graham
- Different
- Like
- Jewelry
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid
- Death
- Bitter
- Less
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Time
- Poetry
- Place
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

Orson F. Whitney
- Poetry
- Thought
- Feelings
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

Adam Beach
- Character
- Death
- Parents
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

Yitzhak Rabin
- World
- Children
- Duty