Ben Carson: Trending quotes (page 5)

“There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone 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 someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.”

Ben Carson

As quoted in "Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Someone Has to Be Courageous Enough to Actually Stand Up to The Bullies’" http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340467/dr-ben-carson-someone-has-be-courageous-enough-actually-stand-bullies-nathaniel, National Review (February 12, 2013)

People , Courage , Problem , Silence

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

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 18

Help

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

Ben Carson

"Conversation with Dr. Ben Carson: The Big Picture" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science-july-dec99-carson_09-07/, PBS NewsHour (September 7, 1999)

People

“Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, "It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women."”

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 161

Women , Men , Thinking , Personality

“But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 40

Death , Error

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

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 76

“You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.”

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 58

Faith

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

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 72

Faith , Christ

“Evolution and creationism both require faith.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 128

Faith

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

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 59

Life

“Ultimately, if you accept the evolutionary theory, you dismiss ethics, you don’t have to abide by a set of moral codes, you determine your own conscience based on your own desires. You have no reason for things such as selfless love, when a father dives in to save his son from drowning. You can trash the Bible as irrelevant, just silly fables, since you believe that it does not conform to scientific thought. You can be like Lucifer, who said, “I will make myself like the Most High.””

Ben Carson

As quoted in "Evolution? No" http://archives.adventistreview.org/2004-1509/story2.html, The Adventist Review (2004)

Love

“The reason that [political correctness] is very troubling to me is that it’s the very same thing that happened to the Roman Empire. They were extremely powerful. There was no way anybody could overcome them. But these philosophers, with the long flowing white robes and the long white beards, they could wax eloquently on every subject, but nothing was right and nothing was wrong. They soon completely lost sight of who they were.”

Ben Carson

As quoted in "Ben Carson thinks “political correctness” could lead U.S. to collapse like Rome" http://www.salon.com/2014/10/15/ben_carson_thinks_political_correctness_could_lead_u_s_to_collapse_like_rome/, Salon (October 15, 2014)

Way

“Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 68

Life , Reality

“I want people to see me as an honest person, a person who is actually willing to express what they believe. The way I look at it, if people don't like that, I'd rather not be in office. I don't want to be in office under false pretenses, just saying things people want to hear so I can get elected.”

Ben Carson

As quoted in "Carson: I won't tell lies to get elected" http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/256687-carson-i-wont-be-silenced (2015), by Jonathan Easley, The Hill (October 12, 2015).

People , Way , Personality , Falseness

“When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, He or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?”

Ben Carson

Source: One Nation (2014), Ch. 2: 'Political Correctness'

Thinking , Baby

“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.”

Ben Carson

As quoted in "America's Best Leaders: Benjamin Carson, Surgeon and Children's Advocate" http://www.usnews.com/news/best-leaders/articles/2008/11/19/americas-best-leaders-benjamin-carson-surgeon-and-childrens-advocate, U.S. News (November 19, 2008)

Leadership , Thinking , Learning

“I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct.”

Ben Carson

As quoted in "Ben Carson: Big Bang A Fairy Tale, Theory Of Evolution Encouraged By The Devil" http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ben-carson-big-bang-a-fairy-tale-theory-of-evolution-encoura#.scwEnmYlG, Buzzfeed News (September 22, 2015)

Personality

“You have yourself to blame.”

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 63