People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
ISAAC ASIMOVOld people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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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.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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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.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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