A great many things are possible. And to himself he added: But not practical.
A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.
You can’t just move backward. You can’t push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don’t just try to ex...
People sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.
All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy, until Hari Seldon, and very few men thereafter, could really understand one another. E...
Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.
You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.
You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.
With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know.
Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might b...
To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.
The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.
The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.
The robot said, 'I have been trying, friend Julius, to understand some remarks Elijah made to me earlier. Perhaps I am beginning to, for it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not...
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that i...