Isaac Asimov Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Isaac Asimov quotes, Isaac Asimov sayings, and Isaac Asimov proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one. Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity. Isaac Asimov
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Isaac Asimov
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka!', but That's funny Isaac Asimov
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists. Isaac Asimov
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills. Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. Isaac Asimov
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Isaac Asimov
Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence? Pelorat said, If you list it like that? List it any way you please, said Trevize. I don't believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence. Isaac Asimov
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists. Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. Isaac Asimov
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie. Isaac Asimov
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov
I write for the same reason I breathe because if I didn't, I would die. Isaac Asimov
The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature. Isaac Asimov
The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight. Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right! Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. Isaac Asimov
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. Isaac Asimov
Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Isaac Asimov