Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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Being self-taught is, I am convinced, the only type of education that exists.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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Never let a sense of morality prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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It is the change, the continuous change, the inevitable change, the dominant factor of today's society.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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The saddest aspect of current life is that science is gaining knowledge more rapidly than society is gaining wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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The most irredeemably stupid man is the one who ignores his wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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If knowledge creates problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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The words of a dead man are modified in the hearts of the living.

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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Evil is commonplace and always human, and it sleeps in our bed and eats at our table.

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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Murder is the only thing that eliminates the person who hurts, so society must take the place of the victim and demand at their name the atonement or grant forgiveness.

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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We are on earth to help others: I don't know what others are on earth for.

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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A poet is, above all, a person passionately in love with language.