Benjamin Carson Quotes

I'm referring to anybody who is trying to interfere with the process of interfering with what the will of the people are. It is the people who should make the decision. And whoever that decision is, the establishment needs to get behind them and push them, not be going in a different direction, there is no way that can be a successful startegy no matter what you believe or who is the candidate.

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• Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Media
  • Slave
  • Entertainment

• If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Money
  • Risk
  • Important Thing

• I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Sense Of Humor

• You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Physician
  • Resonate
  • Diagnosed

• Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Treated
  • Deductions
  • Loopholes

• I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Life
  • High School
  • Classical Music

• We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Energy
  • Destroy
  • Legitimacy

• In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Control
  • Rock
  • Kid

• I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Work
  • Money
  • Books

• Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Truth
  • Cover
  • Complicate

• I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people longevity and quality of life, and I also think it's good for people to use the special gifts and talents that they have. And when I was in medical school, when I began to analyze the gifts and talents that I had, I realized that surgery would probably be a very good fit for me.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Gifts
  • Talents
  • Surgery

• I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Respect
  • Idea
  • Teach

• Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Knowledge
  • Value
  • Learn

• I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Life
  • Decided
  • Cruel

• Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Think
  • Foolish
  • Bombs

• This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Military
  • Ground
  • Boots

• If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Develop

• We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Measure
  • Bones
  • Equipment

• I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Politics
  • Dishonesty
  • Political Correctness

• 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
  • Smarter

• My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Mother
  • Believed
  • Recess

• When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Personality
  • Planet
  • Human Brain

• A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Concentrate
  • Surgeon
  • Technical Ability

• I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Environment
  • Democrat
  • Racist