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Wells Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as…
- Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of…
- To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
- The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.
- One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
- Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the…
- We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to…
- Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they…
- Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a…
- Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once..
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong