"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 )