Thinking Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

— Robert A. Heinlein

What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90%…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world…

— Robert A. Heinlein

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they…

— Robert A. Heinlein

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble -…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may…

— Robert A. Heinlein

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge…

— Robert A. Heinlein