Benjamin Carson Quotes

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

What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

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

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

You have yourself to blame.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

You are what you think.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

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

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

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.

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

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.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

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

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

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

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

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."

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'