We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSIn 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.
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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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