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Thinking Quotes by 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 well.
- A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
- Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
- Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in…
- I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I…
- Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
- I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the…
- Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
- The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
- I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I…
- There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be…
- What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell, 
- A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
- Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
- My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does…
- 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…
- Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then —…
- Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely…
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- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell