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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Thomas Sowell
Truth, Lying, Helping Others
Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell
Sarcastic, Truth, Honesty

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

Thomas Sowell
Truth, Smart, Knowledge
Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.318, Hoover Press

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

Thomas Sowell
Truth, Knowledge, Hands
Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.320, Hoover Press

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