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.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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In 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.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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