Top 300 Ben Carson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Ben Carson

102. “Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

105. “A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay.”

— Ben Carson

106. “I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn’t true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it’s not true, there’s no other word for it.”

— Ben Carson

107. “We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.”

— Ben Carson

108. “White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.”

— Ben Carson

109. “When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.”

— Ben Carson

110. “Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.”

— Ben Carson

111. “Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.”

— Ben Carson

112. “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.”

— Ben Carson

113. “I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.”

— Ben Carson

114. “There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.”

— Ben Carson

115. “My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.”

— Ben Carson

116. “Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”

— Ben Carson

117. “We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.”

— Ben Carson

118. “Our problems are not ours alone – we share them with future generations – and we have a moral obligation to hand our nation over to our children and grandchildren in good shape.”

— Ben Carson

119. “I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn’t look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it’s going to be fine.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

121. “In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.”

— Ben Carson

122. “Then let’s use this incredible tool God has given us to assess the risks that we face every day. We have the means to analyze risks and decide which are worth taking and which should be avoided. Do you have a brain? Then use it. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.”

— Ben Carson

123. “There is no freedom without bravery.”

— Ben Carson

124. “I don’t do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

126. “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.”

— Ben Carson

127. “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.”

— Ben Carson

128. “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.”

— Ben Carson

129. “I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”

— Ben Carson

130. “You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.”

— Ben Carson

131. “I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.”

— Ben Carson

132. “We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

134. “To saddle the next generation with unimaginable debt is not only callous, it is morally reprehensible.”

— Ben Carson

135. “Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.”

— Ben Carson

136. “Education does not necessarily make one wise?”

— Ben Carson

137. “I don’t believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it’s a shame that we’ve reached a level in our country where we think that you don’t have the right to put your opinion out there.”

— Ben Carson

138. “There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.”

— Ben Carson

139. “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.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Ben Carson

141. “If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.”

— Ben Carson

142. “Of course, no religious test for the presidency – every faith adds to our national character.”

— Ben Carson

143. “Nobody is starving on the streets. We’ve always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government’s responsibility.”

— Ben Carson

144. “If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.”

— Ben Carson

145. “The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out. After an era of darkness, new races build others; but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead. – Clarence Day.”

— Ben Carson

146. “Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.”

— Ben Carson

147. “Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.”

— Ben Carson

148. “I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn’t, in reality, do what they did on TV.”

— Ben Carson

149. “Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.”

— Ben Carson

150. “People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it’s not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it’s a politician thing.”

— Ben Carson