Thomas Sowell Quotes

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

Thomas Sowell

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• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Period

• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Different
  • Human
  • Consciousness

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Respect
  • Kindness

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Dad

• I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • May
  • Party
  • Successful

• You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • God
  • You
  • Government

• Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Live
  • Los Angeles

• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Women
  • Teenagers
  • Empower

• Encouraging the weak and the faint; giving strength and courage to those who have faltered. ( Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice )

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Giving
  • Courage
  • Encouraging

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• When our binoculars are focused on the dad as 'deadbeat,' it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Dad
  • Desire
  • Missing

• Mexico is such an important problem. The Mexican government's policies are pushing migration north... There isn't any sensible approach except to do what we need to do simultaneously. Secure our border - with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places. We need to have tough employer sanctions, incentivize Mexico to do more.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Mexican

• The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Moving
  • Door

• Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Hope
  • Die

• She smiled. 'I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?''I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.'

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Real
  • Society

• A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception (Anant-darshana), perfect knowledge (Anant-jnana), perfect power (Anant-virya), and perfect bliss (Anant-sukha).

  

  Mahavira
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Knowledge
  • Smart
  • Dumb