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 ASIMOVThey 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.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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I 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.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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