Thomas Sowell Quotes

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

Stupid people are dangerous.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

It was the first time I was looking, really, right after the storm, that I saw maybe the amount of devastation that had happened in the Lower Ninth Ward. Where my friends lived, which was about six blocks from where the industrial canal was, houses was smashed into houses, and there were, like, four houses smashed together.

When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?

Some people should never meet.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I’ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.