"Doing 90 percent of what is required is one of the biggest wastes because you have nothing to show for all your efforts. But doing 110 percent of what is expected is one of the smartest investments because it can pay off with a big reputation for just a little more effort."

-Thomas Sowell

"A high IQ and low information is a dangerous combination."

-Thomas Sowell ( From an Interview with Peter Robinson concerning his book 'Social Justice Fallacies' )

"If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children."

-Thomas Sowell ( From Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays )

"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."

-Thomas Sowell

"It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think."

-Thomas Sowell

"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence."

-Thomas Sowell

"Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days."

-Thomas Sowell ( Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays (ed. Hoover Inst Press, 1993) )

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."

-Thomas Sowell ( Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell )

"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs."

-Thomas Sowell ( A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell )