Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so… — 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
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the… — 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
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is… — 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
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern… — 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 Image
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 Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
