Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLIntellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLThe fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
THOMAS SOWELLGovernment “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
THOMAS SOWELLIt doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
THOMAS SOWELLSome people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
THOMAS SOWELLBailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
THOMAS SOWELLIn short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
THOMAS SOWELLDespite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
THOMAS SOWELLWhen you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
THOMAS SOWELLOne of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
THOMAS SOWELLIt would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
THOMAS SOWELLIt takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
THOMAS SOWELLDon’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
THOMAS SOWELLIt has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
THOMAS SOWELL