Robert A. Heinlein Sayings and Quotes

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

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. Robert A. Heinlein
Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit. Robert A. Heinlein
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. Robert A. Heinlein
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. Robert A. Heinlein
When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances. Robert A. Heinlein
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. Robert A. Heinlein
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. Robert A. Heinlein
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking. Robert A. Heinlein
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. Robert A. Heinlein
Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills. Robert A. Heinlein
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. Robert A. Heinlein
Never tease an old dog, he might have one bite left. Robert A. Heinlein
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. Robert A. Heinlein
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate. Robert A. Heinlein
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
Fulfillment in life involves loving a good woman and killing a bad man. Robert A. Heinlein
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its 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 motives. Robert A. Heinlein
A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future. Robert A. Heinlein
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. Robert A. Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
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. Robert A. Heinlein
Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and so far the ability, against all competition. Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society. Robert A. Heinlein
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein