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Things Quotes by H.G. Wells
- Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges…
- The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand,…
- The future is the shape of things to come.
- Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the…
- Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
- New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
- Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw.…
- I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle