The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt 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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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 saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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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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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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