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Facts Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western…
- Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But…
- It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence…
- The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a…
- The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens,…
- One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something…
- France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
- Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost?…
- Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
- 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…
- As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack…
- Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
- All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
- Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
- I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the…
- The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do…
- Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all…
- Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were,…
- Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
- If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind…
- What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.
More Facts Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden