Benjamin Carson famous quotes

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Party #Responsibility #Media

I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Thinking #Government

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Smart #Believe #People

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.
-- Benjamin Carson

#People #Evil #Racist

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Running #Courage #Long

There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Thinking #People

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Sports #Media #Brain

I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people longevity and quality of life, and I also think it's good for people to use the special gifts and talents that they have. And when I was in medical school, when I began to analyze the gifts and talents that I had, I realized that surgery would probably be a very good fit for me.
-- Benjamin Carson

#School #Thinking #People

The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Encouragement #Moving #Love You

My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Mother #Fashion #Jobs

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Softball #Looks #Obstacles

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen, we would already be in heaven. And we are not there. That's where trust and faith comes in. You just say, "Lord, I don't understand it. But one thing I do know is that you understand it and that you are in control and I trust you."
-- Benjamin Carson

#Heaven #I Trust You #Lord

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #People #Survival

I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Country #Issues #People

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Dream #Perseverance #Hard Work

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.
-- Benjamin Carson

#People #Waiting #Police

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Technology #Ethics #Significant

I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Country #Believe #Thinking

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Order #World #Talent

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Jobs #Thinking #Issues

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Fighting #Past #Decision

I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Flames #People #Understanding

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Thinking #Political

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
-- Benjamin Carson

#People #Needs #World

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Cities #People #Too Late

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Giving #Christian Inspirational #Results

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Giving #Personality #Brain

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Needs #Helping #Acknowledge

I don't worry about things that aren't important.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Worry #Important

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Thinking #Keys #Goal

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.
-- Benjamin Carson

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Christmas #Mean #People

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Life Is #Environment #Persons

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Brain #Looks #Awe

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.
-- Benjamin Carson

#War #Ukraine

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Running #People #Romance

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Ideas #Pay #Way

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
-- Benjamin Carson

#School #Winning #Thinking

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Needs #Speak

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Opportunity #Doors

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Government #People

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Motivation #Fighting #Matter

It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Wise #People #Risk

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Basketball #Football #Player

We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."
-- Benjamin Carson

#Dog #Rabbits #Today

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Nice #World #Dignity

If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Hands #People #Risk

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Want #Way

I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Book #Thinking #Names

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Thinking #Media #Expression

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Jobs #Believe #Important

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Heaven

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Block #Hypocrite #Kids

We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Children #Parent #Doe

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
-- Benjamin Carson

#People #Risk #Important

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Book

Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.
-- Benjamin Carson

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
-- Benjamin Carson

#People #Giving #Realizing

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Happiness #Inspiring #Success

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Reading #Vocabulary #Comprehension

Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th century is the metabolic organic effect on malignant tumours of correcting the body fluid pH to a non-acidic pH 7.1 to 7.5. A neutral pH 7.0 resists cancer formation. An acid body fluid pH of 6.44 and below permits tumours to biochemically become malignant. At pH 7.5 cancer may become inactive; at 8.5 tumours may disintegrate.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Cancer #Enzymes #Body

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Knowledge #People #Special

Education does not necessarily make one wise?
-- Benjamin Carson

#Wise #Doe

The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes.
-- Benjamin Carson

#America #Class #Community

And I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany,' but I don't care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Government #People

When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Crazy #Fall #Thinking

If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Intelligent #Names #People

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Average #Brain #Normal

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Successful #People #Determined

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Kindness #People #Way

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Way #Treats #Treated

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Nice #Moving #Men

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Yellow #Keys #Doors

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Thinking #Helping Others #Cells

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Reading #Exercise #Imagination

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Library #Bookstores #World

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Sports #Country #Half

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Reading #World #Limits

If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Giving #Depth #World

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Care #Want #Helping

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Helping Others #Where We Come #Doe

I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Doe #Want #Helping

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Differences #Our World #Order

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Doors #People #World

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Hard Work #Opportunity #Doctors

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Creativity #Perspective #Different

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Responsibility #Self #People

Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are. They don't get to change the definition.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Believe #Gay #Men

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,
-- Benjamin Carson

#Thinking #Obamacare #Slavery

So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Dollars #Done #Labs

A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Gay #People #Prison

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Failure #Light #Today

Stop thinking of failing.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Failure #Thinking #Failing

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Faith

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Faith #Believe #Answers

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Fear #Peril

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Fear #Faces #Danger

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Effort #Risk #Should

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Priorities #Risk #Environment

What is important, what I consider success, is that we make a contribution to our world.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Success #Our World #Important