Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Quote by H G Wells

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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...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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

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

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been...

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been...

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.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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...

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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...

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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...

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...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter