Isaac Asimov - From the Comprehension category:
It is better to have knowledge, even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction, than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Criticism category:
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Emotion category:
-Salvor Hardin, Foundation and Empire... Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Knowledge category:
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Knowledge category:
To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life... Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Life category:
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Life category:
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Masters category:
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.' (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Persistence category:
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Pets category:
To insult someone we call him 'bestial.' For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Questions category:
You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Technology category:
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Work category:
If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Work category:
All I do is write. I do practically nothing else, except eat, sleep and talk to my wife. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Writing category:
It's the writing that teaches you. (Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - From the Writing category:
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. (Isaac Asimov)
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