Isaac Asimov Quotes

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Isaac Asimov

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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Politics
  • Now

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• Lovers should also have their days off.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Lovers
  • Days
  • Off

• I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Work
  • Money
  • Kids

• It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Always
  • Difficult
  • Lie

• I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Happy
  • Feelings

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Team
  • Pain
  • Football

• Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Real
  • Ignorance
  • Intelligence

• So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Me
  • Project

• I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

  

  B. B. King
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hope

• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• We all have to be responsible for ourselves. I accept the concept that respect for yourself must be the foundation of respect for others. It is only if you respect yourself as a human being and you have faith in your ability to achieve what should be achieved that you will be able to help others.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Help
  • Faith
  • Respect

• You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

  

  Adam Scott
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Career

• I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

  

  Bill Engvall
  • People
  • Hate
  • Stupid

• The wise men understood that this natural world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. That's what I mean by action.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Words

• The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Wise
  • Stupid