Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 2

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• I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

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• The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

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  Athlete, People, United States

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• Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

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  Wisdom, Mind Your Own Business, Ninety

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

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  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

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  Lessons, Teach, Ifs

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

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  Law, Political, Mind

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• There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

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  Gun, Men, Dangerous Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.

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  Ears, Weapons, Remember

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• Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.

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  Happiness, Children, Lying

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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  Farewell, Childhood, Authority

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

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  Two, Mind, Important

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• I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

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  Thinking, Police, Citizens

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 401), 1967.

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• Belief gets in the way of learning.

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  Clever, Believe, Creativity

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.33, Penguin

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• Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

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  Happiness, Fun, Optimism

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.109, Penguin

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• Love your country, but never trust its government.

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  Country, Love You, Government

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• Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

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  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

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• Never try to outstubborn a cat.

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  Cat, Trying

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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  Sad, Stupid, Silly

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.36, Penguin

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• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

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  Religious, Prayer, Real

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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

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  Gun, Society, May

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

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  Life, Education, Children

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• People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

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  Believe, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.75, Macmillan

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• May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

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  Love, Anniversary, Long

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.87, Penguin

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• In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

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  Clear Goals, Excellence, Loyal

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• Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

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  Rude, Happiness And Love, Duty

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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