As I read, I collect quotes that I find thought-provoking. Here are a few from more recent reading for your enjoyment…

No statement is more unnecessary than the statement that the government should "do something" about some issue. Politicians are going to "do something," whether or not something needs to be done, and regardless of whether what they do makes matters better or worse. All their incentives are to keep themselves in the public eye. – Thomas Sowell

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. – C. S. Lewis

Nobody objects to a non-doctrinal Christianity because there is nothing to object to.

– Kevin DeYoung

It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politicians. – John Maynard Keynes

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. – Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

I get disgusted with people who call contradictions "complexities." – Thomas Sowell

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

– Benjamin Franklin

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

In your town, your reputation counts; in another, your clothes do. – The Talmud

The more closely you scrutinize any endeavor, the more imperfect you’re going to discover it to be.

– Bruce Weber

Blaming economic crises on "greed" is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn't crash if it wasn't for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about "greed," which is constant like    gravity. – Thomas Sowell

Think things, not words. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Present grace is heaven begun in the soul. – C. H. Spurgeon

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good. –  Thomas Sowell