Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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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