Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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