It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Thomas Sowell Quotes

American - Economist Born: June 30, 1930

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. - Thomas Sowell

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell

Funny, Extent, Considerable

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell

Politics, Satisfy, Disregard

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. - Thomas Sowell

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell

Leadership, Charge, Should

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell

Politics, Play, Always

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. Thomas Sowell

Centuries, Disintegrated

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Thomas Sowell

Stupid, Making, Imagine

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. Thomas Sowell

Color, Green, Race

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

Strong, Suit, Strong Suit

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. Thomas Sowell

Income, Big, Held

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. Thomas Sowell

Strong, Gun, Laws

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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. Thomas Sowell

Been, Social, Over

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. Thomas Sowell

Government, Want, Been

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' Thomas Sowell

Been, Some, Declare

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. Thomas Sowell

Will, More, Over

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. Thomas Sowell

Problem, Think, Confuses

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. Thomas Sowell

Gun, Will, Dent

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. Thomas Sowell

Forget, Too, Correlation

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. Thomas Sowell

Fate, Been, Descendants

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. Thomas Sowell

More, Specialty, Talkers

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. Thomas Sowell

About, Welfare State, Egos

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. Thomas Sowell

Down, Multiculturalism, Any

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell

Business, News, Accordingly

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. Thomas Sowell

Health, Think, Hospitals

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. Thomas Sowell

Work, Survive, Fact

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Thomas Sowell

Country, Big, Democrats

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. Thomas Sowell

Education, More, Too

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