“The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.”

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’

The intelligent man is never bored.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.

I am envious of the moon that pulls the tide with ease if I could do the same I would sail you back to me.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.

Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.