Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt, Pain, Funny Things

• Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Children, Opinion

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

• Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Evil, Goodness

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Evil, Cold

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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