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.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnd above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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