Benjamin Carson Quotes

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Benjamin Carson

• Manipulated
• Uninformed

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Stress

• If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Don't Know
  • Onstage
  • Tubes

• This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.

  

  William Appleman Williams
  • Fighting
  • Politician
  • Argument

• Shut off the internal bashing.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Teenage
  • Internals

• My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Up
  • Lost

• There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Question

• I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Album
  • Scream
  • Resonates

• A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Gentleman
  • Contradiction
  • Nose

• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Art
  • Making
  • Manipulated

• Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Material

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • America
  • Way
  • Eye

• Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Manipulated
  • Uninformed