Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive they wind up as meat for leopards.
Robert A. Heinlein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
Evolution
Baboons
Behavior
Leopards
Failing
Exhibit
Wind
Exhibits
Moral
Stops
Process
Meat
Never
Survive
Fail
More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
Never encourage a man to cook breakfast it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
Robert A. Heinlein
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
Robert A. Heinlein
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
Robert A. Heinlein
I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.
Robert A. Heinlein
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
Robert A. Heinlein
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.
Robert A. Heinlein
Faith is intellectual laziness.
Robert A. Heinlein
There will always be survivors.
Robert A. Heinlein
A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.
Robert A. Heinlein
Television leaves no external scars.
Robert A. Heinlein
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
Robert A. Heinlein
Spacemen die if they stay in one place.
Robert A. Heinlein
Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.
Robert A. Heinlein
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert A. Heinlein
A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.
Robert A. Heinlein
My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
Robert A. Heinlein
Behind every mystery lies another mystery.
Robert A. Heinlein
