“Thomas Sowell Quotes”
Thomas Sowell is a genius so says Noble Prize winner Milton Friedman.
He is such a clear thinker and will turn 93 this June. I thought it appropriate to jot down a few of his many thought provoking quotes.
He was born in poverty, dropped out of high school to get a job, and served in the Marine Corp during the Korean war. After the Military service he took night classes at Howard University and later graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude. He later earned a Master Degree at Columbia in economics and finally received his Doctorate degree in economics at Chicago University in 1968. This list goes on and on. So here you go.
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? and Other Essays
“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 what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
― Thomas Sowell
“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”
― 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 want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.”
― Thomas Sowell
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
― Thomas Sowell, Knowledge And Decisions
Thanks for reading. May Thomas Sowell live for ever. (I believe he will)