Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
annoys pig teach time
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
children teaching thinking
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
teaching self taught
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
education teaching learning
When one teaches, two learn.
lessons teach ifs
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
teaching leader following-your-own-path
It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.
teaching math important
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.
article billion compulsive five habit neuroses reading remind theme troubles unhealthy
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
dull fact fantasy matter strange
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.
running should-have safety
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.
church forbidden holy matter result tyranny
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
majority notebooks robert time
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
beings experience hard hardly human learn
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
accomplish alone character cold goodness hard invariably wisdom
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.