An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Ask the next question.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
--Theodore Sturgeon
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? (story title).
--Theodore Sturgeon
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Live long and prosper.
(from the Star Trek original series episode 'Amok Time').
--Theodore Sturgeon
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Ninety percent of everything is crud. (Sturgeon's Revelation).
--Theodore Sturgeon
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
--Theodore Sturgeon
No planet, no universe, is greater to a man than his own ego, his own observing self.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Nothing is always absolutely so. (Sturgeon's Law).
--Theodore Sturgeon
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
--Theodore Sturgeon
There are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
--Theodore Sturgeon
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
--Theodore Sturgeon
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
--Theodore Sturgeon
We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
--Theodore Sturgeon
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
--Theodore Sturgeon
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