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?
ISAAC ASIMOVThe great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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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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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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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