Thomas Sowell Facts Quotations

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

The 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.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.