Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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