Thomas Sowell Quotes

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Reality is what you can count on.

Facts are facts.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Seek truth from facts.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

No authority is higher than reality.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

I deal in facts.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Facts are stubborn things.