There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
ISAAC ASIMOVSelf-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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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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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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