Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLOne of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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