Psychology Quotes by Isaac Asimov

20 Psychology quotes by Isaac Asimov

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Asimov’s love of patterns extends to the mind. In 20 concise observations he blends logical analysis with a storyteller’s eye, making mental habits feel both explainable and vivid.

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Finished products are for decadent minds.

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It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

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Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the…

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One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing…

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“There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the…

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I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

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Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete…

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In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

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The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater…

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In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite…

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What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the…

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I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to…

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“Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on…

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It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the…

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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds…

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“All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector.…

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Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary…

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I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up…

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“I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, the…

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use…

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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

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“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!”

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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

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It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the…

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“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can…

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When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,…

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“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is…

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“temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus”

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“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being…

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“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted”

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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and…

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There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be…

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A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law…

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