Thomas Sowell Quotes

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.

We shall either find a way or make one.

The important thing is the solution to the problem, not who gets the credit.

Strategy draws its inspiration each century, or rather at each moment of history, from the problems which events themselves pose.

I hope to see no in-fighting and lots of cooperation. We can either all be part of the problem, or part of the solution, but I think we will all work together well on the same team.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

No government at any level has all the answers.

It is axiomatic in politics that the earlier one addresses a problem, the more the alternatives and the easier the solutions.

Getting rid of a problem in one area improves the situations in ten areas.

It is one thing to diagnose a problem; it is another to resolve it.

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

Pay attention to matters of importance.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy.

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

Our string has run out. There is nothing more we can do.

A hole is only as big as you dig it.

How do I decide what's most important for me to do when I come in in the morning? That's easy. I read the Washington Post.

I remember thinking that there was no problem that we [government] couldn't resolve.