Foundation

"A single idea can reshape the destiny of worlds"

"The most dangerous enemy is the one who believes he is righteous"

"We cannot avoid the future but we can prepare for it"

"The greatest discovery is yet to come for those who dare to seek it"

"No problem of politics or social organization can be solved without first understanding human nature"

"Patience is not the absence of action but rather the right timing of action"

"The real strength of any civilization is the quality of its thought"

"We face the unknown not with fear but with reason and preparation"

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste on insignificant problems"

"Every man has the capacity within himself to achieve greatness if he but understands his purpose"

"Science cannot be conquered by superior force"

"The religious mind of man has always been his greatest weakness and his greatest strength"

"Crises strengthen the Foundation rather than weaken it"

"Truth is not always popular but it must be faced"

"All through our history men have supposed themselves to be free when they were slaves to the ideas of earlier generations"

"The laws of mass psychology are as rigid as the laws of motion"

"It is forbidden to fight the Four Kingdoms with weapons of their own"

"The greatest talent of all is the ability to know when to stop"

"The obvious cannot be seen"

"Science was the first of human freedoms"

"It is a mistake to accept the first answer that comes to you"

"The Foundation exists for but one purpose: to bring about the Galactic Empire in a new cycle"

"We are not supermen. We cannot foresee the future except mathematically"

"All knowledge that the world has ever had is the fruit of the unfinished work of the greatest minds of past generations"

"It is a mistake to overlook the obvious"

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"

"Education is the foundation upon which all progress is built"

"The Fall of the Empire is inevitable, but what rises from its ashes is not"

"The greatest threat to any empire is the ignorance of its people"

"A person is smart. People are dumb"