The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
ISAAC ASIMOVTo succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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.
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