Thomas Sowell Quotes

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

I try not to be overly analytical.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

It takes time and effort and preparation to think. Statesmen are far too busy making speeches to think.

The real question, therefore, is not whether students should be taught to think critically and self-reflectively, but instead what they should be thinking critically about.

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

I'm a thinker.

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.