History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: Catastrophe Quotes, History Quotes

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...