107 Quotes by Jack McDevitt

So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.

Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.