Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Quote by H G Wells

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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...

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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...

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

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

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

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

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

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...