Quote

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.

Benjamin Carson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Benjamin Carson
School
Wanted
Psychiatrists
Firsts
Psychiatrist
First
Discovered
Medical
Decided
Didn
Reality

More quotes by Benjamin Carson

Image
What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.
Benjamin Carson
Image
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.
Benjamin Carson
Image
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
Benjamin Carson
Image
I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
Benjamin Carson
Image
There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
Benjamin Carson
Image
I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.
Benjamin Carson
Image
Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.
Benjamin Carson
Image
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
Benjamin Carson
Image
We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
Benjamin Carson
Image
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
Benjamin Carson
Image
Now, as far as monitoring is concerned, what my point is, we need to make sure that any place - I don't care whether it's a mosque, a school, a supermarket, a theater, you know it doesn't matter. If there are a lot of people getting there and engaging in radicalizing activities then we need to be suspicious of it.
Benjamin Carson
Image
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.
Benjamin Carson
Image
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.
Benjamin Carson
Image
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
Benjamin Carson
Image
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.
Benjamin Carson
Image
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
Benjamin Carson
Image
Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is, I've been in lots of place growing up and listening to people tell great tales of sexual conquest. It is an immature thing to do -
Benjamin Carson
Image
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.
Benjamin Carson
Image
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Benjamin Carson
Image
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?
Benjamin Carson