Foundation

Book · 6 characters · 282 quotes · 1951

Quotes from Foundation

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"The future belongs to those who believe in it"
Hari Seldon Motivation
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"Entropy increases in all systems"
Hari Seldon Science
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"Knowledge is power only if properly applied"
Hari Seldon Knowledge
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"We build for a thousand years"
Salvor Hardin
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"Mankind's greatest discovery was the discovery of his own mind"
Hari Seldon Knowledge
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"The foundation is a seed that will grow"
Hari Seldon Hope
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"A crisis is when one cannot say no"
Salvor Hardin Courage
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
Salvor Hardin Wisdom
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"I have come to believe that this is a very likely world we live in"
Hari Seldon Philosophy
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"Foundation must grow without interference"
Hari Seldon Leadership
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"The laws of nature are the canvas God laid down on which he painted his masterpiece"
Hari Seldon Nature
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"Individual human beings are unpredictable but human conglomerates are not"
Hari Seldon Science
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"A seer must be a skeptic"
Hari Seldon Wisdom
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"Psychohistory is the study of the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli"
Hari Seldon Science
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"The fall of the Empire cannot be stopped"
Hari Seldon
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"Complexity is just a lot of simplicity"
Hari Seldon Knowledge
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
Hari Seldon Leadership
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
Salvor Hardin Wisdom
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"Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare today"
Salvor Hardin Motivation
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"The marketplace of ideas determines survival"
Salvor Hardin Freedom
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"We must think not of centuries but of millennia"
Hari Seldon Time
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"Power without accountability is tyranny"
Salvor Hardin Power
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"We are gardeners of the future, not its architects"
Salvor Hardin Wisdom
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"Progress demands the sacrifice of the comfortable"
Hari Seldon Change
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"One must never underestimate the power of belief"
Salvor Hardin Faith
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"Leadership is the burden of knowledge"
Salvor Hardin Leadership
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"The future is not written, only predicted"
Hari Seldon Philosophy
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"Truth emerges from the collision of ideas"
Salvor Hardin Truth
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"Patience is the virtue of the long view"
Hari Seldon Patience
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"The periphery will devour the center"
Salvor Hardin Change