Thomas Sowell Quotes

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Talents & science are sufficient motives with me in appointments to which they are fitted.

I think I have a lot to offer.

Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

I know what I can bring to the table wherever it is.

Experience is everything in this league.

Age is never a factor if talent is there.

I will try to showcase what I have to offer.

It doesn't matter what you look like. Experience is the key.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Authority does not equal competency.