Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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