88 quotes
Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.
Up the Line (1969)
Beauty is a magnet: repels some, attracts many, leaves no one unmoved.
Capricorn Games (1974)
She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.
Thorns (1967)
Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.
Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)
Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated.
The Gate of Worlds (1967)
The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.
The Man in the Maze (1969)
When you poison a man in order to sell him the antidote, you don’t boast about it afterward to the victim!
Company Store (1959)
Only a man who doubts his own bravery bristles when called a coward.
The Gate of Worlds (1967)
I think power is a sickness and governing is a folly for madmen.
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
A man who lies to himself is the worst liar of all.
The Gate of Worlds (1967)
Love of others begins with love of self.
A Time of Changes (1971)
What value is lineage to a drowning man?
A Time of Changes (1971)
Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul.
A Time of Changes (1971)
I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.
The Emperor and the Maula (2007)
Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.
The Emperor and the Maula (2007)
When you treat a rational autonomous creature as though he’s a mere beast, what does that make you?
Downward to the Earth (1970)
The more you succeed in making out of yourself, the more bitter a thing it is to have to die.
The Book of Skulls (1972)
You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.
The Man in the Maze (1969)
Gottfried, like any true dictator, liked to surround himself with bland obliging ciphers.
The Stochastic Man (1975)
Morality after the fact, said Eli from the rear, is worse than no morality at all.
The Book of Skulls (1972)