It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion that that ignorance is absolutely incurable that alone gives the past its enormous predominance in our thoughts.


Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1902), The Discovery of the Future (p. 380), Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 1903

H. G. Wells Quotes

It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion that that ignorance is absolutely incurable that alone gives the past its enormous predominance...

It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion that that ignorance is absolutely incurable that alone gives the past its enormous predominance...

It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion that that ignorance is absolutely incurable that alone gives the past its enormous predominance...

It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion that that ignorance is absolutely incurable that alone gives the past its enormous predominance...