So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
ISAAC ASIMOVOld people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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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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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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