1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language – and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

Live and learn, or you don’t live long.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying – ‘hurry’ was not a concept in Martian.

One can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection.

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.

Morals – all correct moral laws – derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs.