Top 263 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Carson - Page 3

I think God's a pretty fair guy.

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

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

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

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

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

If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

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.

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

A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.

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.

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

Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt - by forgetting.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

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

You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.

Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.

Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.

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

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

You are what you think.

I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

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.

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

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

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.

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.

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.

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

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

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

[Donald Trump] is talked about enormous loss that we've had in this country by allowing radical Islamic extremists to run rampant without having a coherent plan for how to destroy them, not just to contain them, but to destroy them. And the implications of that for all families who are losing service members is significant.

You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we're going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.

But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.

The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

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.

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

What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

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.

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.