Thinking Quotes by Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

— Thomas Sowell

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

— Thomas Sowell

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…

— Thomas Sowell

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak…

— Thomas Sowell

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not…

— Thomas Sowell

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our…

— Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected…

— Thomas Sowell

People who think that they are being exploited should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people…

— Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves hinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned…

— Thomas Sowell

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd…

— Thomas Sowell

Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with…

— Thomas Sowell

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of…

— Thomas Sowell

One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think…

— Thomas Sowell

I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our…

— Thomas Sowell

When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters…

— Thomas Sowell

Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what…

— Thomas Sowell

Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody --…

— Thomas Sowell

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people…

— Thomas Sowell

Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean…

— Thomas Sowell

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where…

— Thomas Sowell

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the…

— Thomas Sowell

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because…

— Thomas Sowell

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking…

— Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned…

— Thomas Sowell

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war…

— Thomas Sowell