All Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
- ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite. Burn
- Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love. End
- I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... But… All
- Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have… Best
- Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you. Discontented
- The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical… All
- Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. Blind
- Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. All
- I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest. Always Suspicious
- My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does… Any
- His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. Bothered
- Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free. Attention
- But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. Accomplish
- Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. Church
- No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His… All
- If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. Demonstrate
- All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of… All
- The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or… All
- Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense†told them… Calling
- Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold… Chance