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Basic Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is…
- The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as…
- Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and…
- You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all…
- The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
- 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…
- The most basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to choose.
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish…
More Basic Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue… — Alton Brown
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you… — Rajneesh
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein