Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. - Isaac Asimov

And of those who were aware, there were dime classes. First, there were the many who knew little and were very confident.

religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men and worlds.

Tales without end are told of these massive, lonely figures who bore half-seriously, half-mockingly a motto adopted from one of Salvor Hardin's epigrams, "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!