It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“But I didn’t go to sleep. The truth is, I’ve got a monkey on my back, a habit worse than marijuana though… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of” — 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
