Robert Heinlein quotes

Up leaps the race of Earthmen,/Out, far, and onward yet-
- Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth

Knock-Knock Who's there? Armageddon Armageddon who? Armageddon tired of all these knock-knock jokes!
- Robert A. Heinlein Farnham's Freehold

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
- Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love. (He may have gotten it elsewhere.)

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
- Robert A. Heinlein

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
- Robert A. Heinlein

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H. Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it - once you can honestly say, I don't know, then it becomes possible to get at the truth.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
- Robert A. Heinlein

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
- Robert A. Heinlein

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
- Robert A. Heinlein

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
- Robert A. Heinlein

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog.
- Robert A. Heinlein

An armed society is a polite society.
- Robert A. Heinlein The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy- and dull fantasy at that- as the real world is strange and wonderful.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Never try and teach a pig to sing: it's a waste of time, and it annoys the pig.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love