Ben Carson Quotes

You have to try, you have to do everything you can.

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.

I've never known a case yet where worry helped.

It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!

Of course black lives matter. But instead of people pointing fingers at each other and just creating strife, what we need to be talking about is: How do we solve problems in the black community? ... Whether I get the votes or not, I want people to start listening to what I am saying and understanding that ... there is a way to go that will lead to upward mobility as opposed to dependency.

You are what you think.

Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.

In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.

It wasn't that I had to be first in everything, but I should have been number one.

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

I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity.

I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.