Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSThe past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSThere 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.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSA time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLSMan 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.
H. G. WELLSThe uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSThe New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
H. G. WELLSThe 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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