Isaac Asimov Quotes

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

I don't think about myself very much.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

I don't try to do anything. I think the moment that I'm like, "Oh, I have to be this way or that way" is the moment that I become sad, or maybe an asshole. So I just try to be myself and put out what is most natural. But I think I am - I mean, I've seen a lot, been through a lot. But something remains sort of naïve within me. And I just try to nurture that.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.

Being humbled is a good thing.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

I'm a regular guy, and I don't want anyone to look at me as being superior or having a God complex or anything like that, you know? I don't want to walk around like I know everything, because I have so much more room to improve.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.