Thomas Sowell Quotes

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

The dark is light enough.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

We require, as a species, the difference between what is safe and unsafe to define ourselves. Be it in darkness or in light, where we are means nothing without the comparison to the other place - where we are not. And thus it is the difference between them that tells us who and what we are.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

Let's all be different same as me.

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.