Isaac Asimov Quotes

I really enjoyed reading so much science fiction when I was in my teens. There are a lot of things I've forgotten over the years, but I do remember that Isaac Asimov was one of my favorite authors. After recently reading one of his quotes, "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent", I went looking for more, and thought it might be fun to share these from medium.com:

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  Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. 
• People think of education as something that they can finish. 
• To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. 
• 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.
  
• Above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. 
• My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. 
• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. 
• It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. 
• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. 
• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. 
• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 
• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. 
• All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. 
• When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. 
• The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists. 
• Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind. 
• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. 
• Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. 
• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. 
• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. 
• The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. 
• Science-fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. 
• If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist. 
• Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. 
• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. 
• The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing. 
• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.