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…

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: Cheerfulness Quotes, Peace Quotes

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

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...

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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...

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...

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

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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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...

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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.