Benjamin Carson Quotes

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Benjamin Carson

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• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Pretty
  • Road
  • Famous

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Love
  • Investment
  • Only

• I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Fear
  • Waiting
  • Inspired

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Project

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Important

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance

• The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Life
  • Science
  • Progress

• All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

  

  Ariel Winter

• It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

  

  Ezra Levant
  • Faith
  • Environment
  • Prosperity

• When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experience

• Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

  

  Rabbi Akiva
  • God
  • Giving
  • Hand

• Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Parents

• The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Great
  • Country
  • Education

• I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Wisdom
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