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Top 500 Robert A. Heinlein Quotes (2025 Update)
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Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter – and much safer.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be – instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you’ve turned it into a circus. Well, if you’re going to have a circus, you’ve got to have elephants.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Responsibility cannot be shared.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “He’s an honest politician – he stays bought.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “All cats are not gray after midnight.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “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 Quote: “God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Love is what still goes on when you’re not horny.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed – to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Audacity, always audacity – soundest principal of strategy.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Belief gets in the way of learning.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius...”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “What we think of as ‘Physical beauty’ is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness intelligence among them.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Was there ever a time when the majority was right?”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but – if you will pardon my saying so – all wrong.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “A little more money won’t do you any good – because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Make money, lose money – who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Democracy can survive anything except Democrats.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it’s the only thing to make it stop hurting.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quote: “Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.”
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