Isaac Quotes

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

Education isn't something you can finish

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me--human.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

How many people is the earth able to sustain?

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

All is foreseen but the choice is given.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

When my agent told me he had a voice-over job I thought it was a Disney thing.

You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!