Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.' — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
