Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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  • The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin
  • Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

    "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 334), August 1988.
  • Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

  • Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

  • The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

  • Men are not potatoes!

    Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Starship Troopers”, p.168, Hachette UK
  • A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin
  • Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

  • It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.

  • Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin
  • Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin
  • 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 they are to think so.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin
  • A human being has no natural rights of any nature.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.95, Penguin
  • Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin
  • Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

    Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley
  • Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

  • Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin
  • Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.475, Penguin
  • There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin
  • Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.90, Penguin
  • The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin
  • Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

  • Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc
  • I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

    Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.136, Macmillan
  • The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin
  • People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley
  • The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

    "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 18, p. 230, 1985.
  • The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

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