I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
ISAAC ASIMOVSince 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.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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