38 Quotations by Robert A. Heinlein
- 1. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a ...
- 2. A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his ani ...
- 3. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo ...
- 4. A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop ...
- 5. A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
- 6. Always listen to the experts. They will tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
- 7. An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi ...
- 8. Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
- 9. Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy
- 10. Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist ha ...
- 11. Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
- 12. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
- 13. History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
- 14. I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
- 15. I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
- 16. It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui ...
- 17. It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip ...
- 18. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy ...
- 19. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
- 20. Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes by Power Quotations
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