Psychology Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

26 Psychology quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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Heinlein’s twenty‑six statements treat the mind as a frontier. His speculative bent invites readers to imagine how future societies might rewire cognition.

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“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.”

Robert A. Heinlein

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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

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No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

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The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

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Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

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Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

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Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -…

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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been…

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“Until a person, man or woman, has enjoyed this treasure bathed in the mutual bliss of minds linked as closely as bodies,…

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Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not…

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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist…

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Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part…

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him…

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There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental…

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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human…

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Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.…

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“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political…

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God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of…

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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little…

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Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a…

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The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into…

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“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the…

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“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has…

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“The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable - from table…

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There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"…

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“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the…

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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,…

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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

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“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

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“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to…

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“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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“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”

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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

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