Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion


Robert A. Heinlein

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT HEINLEIN
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art w...
ADAM DAVIDSON
If you haven't learned by now that you cant trust everybody, i think its safe to say that you are th...
BRIELL ADAMS
Don't think it. Do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
CHUCK CLOSE
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth'...
GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON
There is also a tiny fraction of Australians who believe in white supremacy.
AMEER ALI
I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think t...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people ar...
GRAHAM NASH
I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.
DAVID ROSE
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant y...
ELIZABETH SCOTT
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial valu...
LAWRENCE LESSIG
I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I...
STEWART LEE
People who think money can do anything may very well be suspected of doing anything for money.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE
Just because I cant fly, don't think you can keep me on the ground.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Money is a very small fraction of my brain.
IDDI LUKOO
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consist...
ANNA QUINDLEN
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating con...
ANNA QUINDLEN
...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I think it's an incredibly bold and original show. And if only a small fraction of the loyal audienc...
ROBERT GREENBLATT
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decoratin...
ANNA QUINDLEN
Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what...
DAN ABRAMS
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all ...
CARL SAGAN
If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS
I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage'...
T. J. THYNE
I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.
BOB NEWHART
Well when you cant sleep well you cant dream and when you cant dream well whats life mean
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to ...
ADAM D'ANGELO
I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers....
WERNER HERZOG
I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they ...
MIKE SIMPSON
In actuality, just a tiny fraction of the money has been spent.
ERIC STEWART
Think not of what you can do, but of what you cannot!
JALAL ERRAZI
I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt ab...
MARV ALBERT
To be underdogs or not, I don't think it gives anybody an advantage once you go on the ice. It's who...
GUY DUPUIS
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
DON NICKLES
That is something I don't think I could do very accurately at all.
ANDREW HURLY
Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.
STEPHEN CURRY
I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
CATE BLANCHETT
I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks a...
SLASH
There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stoppin...
IRENE GONZALEZ FREI
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young an...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the ...
LAURENCE STERNE
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the w...
LAURENCE STERNE
The people who live there are very invested in the city, so I think for the most part, they will [re...
ELIZABETH LEWIS
I think most people act in their self-interest.
AUBREY MCCLENDON
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
DIANA VREELAND
I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.
MICKEY DREXLER
People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inv...
IRIS APFEL
I think that speaks to the type of small businesses and I think it goes to speak to the type of lend...
KEN SILVIA
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
ELAINE STRITCH
Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.
ROBERT K. MUELLER
The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people thin...
PILOU ASBAEK
I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
ZAC EFRON
I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achie...
NATALIA VODIANOVA
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
STEVE SCALISE
In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what ...
GODFREY REGGIO
There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most impor...
SARAH PARCAK
The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
C. JOYBELL C.
The most Wisdomful woman in the world is one, Who can think like a Woman & like a Man as well
ASHISH SOPHAT
The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of i...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is fa...
JULIAN SIMON
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplay...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN
Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and ...
BURT LANCASTER
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that ...
TAYLOR SWIFT
I really enjoy working with people who have come into this industry for what I think are really admi...
EMILY BERRINGTON
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to ...
PAULO FREIRE
Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who actually do.
ANONYMOUS
I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.
DAVE BREITENFELD
I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it...
ED HARRIS
Why do you eat? Why to sleep? If you cant be a trustworthy person, cant be a true lover, cant be a g...
WRITER GRADED
Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Very few people think; most people just conform.
DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D.
the human mind is very powerful, people always say they CANT do something but if they believe in the...
MIKE GRIST
I just think that most of the people are very close minded.
ALEX CHIU
People who think they know it all, are especially annoying to those of us who do!
DAVID SMITH
Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular gu...
DON RICKLES
Most of us can do more than we think but usually do less than we think we have.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Anything I want to learn, I learn - Anything I want to do, I do - I however cannot say the same for ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excru...
EILEEN ATKINS
If i cant then who can?
AJITH BSC MBA
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potent...
ROSE TREMAIN
Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.
BRUCE WILKINSON
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
It's a small truncated segment of the electorate, voters who are reasonably informed of the issues. ...
JAMES SIMMONS
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
UNKNOWN
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Most people think there is a God, but God is not what most people think.
RAIN BOJANGLES
I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
DAN HARMON
If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ...
NATE RUESS
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
THOM YORKE
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the ...
ERIC BRAEDEN
I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.
CHARLOTTE LAMB

More Robert A. Heinlein

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimis...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null wor...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matt...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the r...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political po...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence nev...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealou...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I grok in fullness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest lan...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attenti...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There is no safety this side of the grave
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the pretties...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the oth...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Belief gets in the way of learning.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are f...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conj...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on a government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you m...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were rem...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acqu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afte...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of go...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you sha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has even...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most am...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to se...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. The...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Everybody lies about sex.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN