“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
-I did nothing for you.”
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“...people live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.'
'For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of you. I don't. I want more good ones.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Born place: in Petrovichi, Russian Federation
Born date January 2, 1920
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“You know what I do? I lose my heart.” Cortell’s throat suddenly tightened, strangling his words. “I lose my heart.” He took a deep breath, trying to regain his composure. He exhaled and went on quietly, back in control. “I sit there and I don’t see any hope. Hope gone.” Cortell was seeing his dead friends. “Then, the sky turn gray again in the east, and you know what I do? I choose all over to keep believin’. All along I know Jesus could maybe be just some fairy tale, and I could be just this one big fool. I choose anyway.” He turned away from his inward images and returned to the blackness of the world around him. “It ain’t no easy thing.”
― Karl Marlantes, quote from Matterhorn
“An honest heart is all that is needed for a prayer to reach the Lord.”
― Amish Tripathi, quote from The Secret of the Nagas
“If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from What Happened to Goodbye
“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers – and it was not there . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there . . . in her rich mines and her vast world commerce – and it was not there . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution – and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, quote from Democracy in America
“He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.”
― Vernor Vinge, quote from A Fire Upon the Deep
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