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.
ISAAC ASIMOVNothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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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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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 easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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