Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSWe are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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