Thomas Sowell Quotes

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Every solution breeds new problems.

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Any study of a society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems, new demands.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

Almost every achievement contains within its success the seeds of a future problem.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

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

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

If answers to our national problems were [readily] available we would not have to spend all our time talking about them.

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

There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I have been an editor at Commentary for a number of years and the thing that we all agree about is that we are much better at identifying problems than at solving them.