Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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