Top 300 Ben Carson Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.”

— Ben Carson

202. “I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.”

— Ben Carson

203. “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.”

— Ben Carson

204. “God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.”

— Ben Carson

205. “It’s very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.”

— Ben Carson

206. “You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.”

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

— Ben Carson

208. “I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.”

— Ben Carson

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209. “Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. PROVERBS 14:34.”

— Ben Carson

210. “I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.”

— Ben Carson

211. “This is what we’re going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got.”

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212. “Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?”

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213. “I am fond of saying that if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.”

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214. “There isn’t anybody in the world who isn’t worth something,” I say. “If you’re nice to them, they’ll be nice to you. The same people you meet on the way up are the same kind of people you meet on the way down. Besides that, every person you meet is one of God’s children.”

— Ben Carson

215. “Capitalism is a system that works extremely well for someone who is highly motivated and very energetic, but it is not a great system for someone who is not interested in working hard or for someone who feels no need to contribute to the economic well-being of their community.”

— Ben Carson

216. “I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.”

— Ben Carson

217. “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.”

— Ben Carson

218. “I don’t worry about things that aren’t important.”

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219. “Breaking cycles of dependency, establishing cordial relationships between people of differing economic means, and reestablishing sound values and principles in our society can serve only to strengthen the fabric of our nation, which is what any government should want to do and which clearly promotes the general welfare.”

— Ben Carson

220. “Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life. PROVERBS 18:21.”

— Ben Carson

221. “The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.”

— Ben Carson

222. “Until the antireligion zealots learn the meaning of the word tolerance, we will continue to experience unnecessary strife.”

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223. “This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.”

— Ben Carson

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224. “People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.”

— Ben Carson

225. “We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.”

— Ben Carson

226. “I think God’s a pretty fair guy.”

— Ben Carson

227. “I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.”

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228. “When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow – acting according to its own prerogatives – it ceases to be a representative government and instead has transformed into something else. One.”

— Ben Carson

229. “When I entered Yale, I had to face two important facts about myself. First, though I could consider myself a smart enough person – I was not quite as smart as I thought I was. Second, I did not know how to do in-depth studying.”

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230. “Thinking Big means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead. Thinking Big is another way of restating one of my mother’s favorite sayings: “You can do anything they can do – only you must try to do it better!” That’s Thinking Big.”

— Ben Carson

231. “These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.”

— Ben Carson

232. “If you’re good, you’ll be recognized. Because people, even if they’re prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.”

— Ben Carson

233. “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.”

— Ben Carson

234. “The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.”

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

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236. “When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.”

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237. “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.”

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238. “Totalitarianism always starts with restrictions on the rights of others. We must avoid this at all costs. George Washington even said, “If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

— Ben Carson

239. “What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.”

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240. “People are worried about if somebody’s going to say that I’m Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That’s why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .”

— Ben Carson

241. “I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.”

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242. “You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.”

— Ben Carson

243. “There was a time when I was a hothead, and my temper wreaked havoc in my life until I learned to take myself out of the center of the circle. The real key to staying cool and calm is to relinquish selfishness and always consider the feelings of others.”

— Ben Carson

244. “There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.”

— Ben Carson

245. “Our founders did not believe that our society could thrive without this kind of moral social structure. In fact, it was our second president, John Adams, who said of our thoroughly researched and developed governing document, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

— Ben Carson

246. “One reason I didn’t hold any grudges or harsh feelings toward Dad must have been that my mother seldom blamed him – at least not to us or in our hearing. I can hardly think of a time when she spoke against him.”

— Ben Carson

247. “There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.”

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248. “I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says it. And a lot of times when people don’t have a lot to say, they increase the volume.”

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249. “God has an overall plan for people’s lives and the details get worked out along the way, even though we usually have no idea what’s going on.”

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250. “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.”

— Ben Carson