H. G. Wells on idea
H. G. Wells47 quotes“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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