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Us Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it…
- Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
- The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
- The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths…
- I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play…
- The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and…
- Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do…
- Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the…
- I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in…
- Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing…
- Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong