I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
ISAAC ASIMOVI 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.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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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.
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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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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