black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

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

Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
ISAAC ASIMOV

Honesty Myself Wrong
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
ISAAC ASIMOV

Fear Hold Past Time
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Discover Philosophy Universe Way
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Commitment Enough Eyes Human Love Myself Optimism Race Stupidity Suicide Wonderful
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Reading Speed Understand
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.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Aspect Knowledge Life Right Sadness Science Society Wisdom
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Persistence Success Talent Yourself

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Asimov Quotes