One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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