H. G. Wells Quotes

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

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

Our true nationality is mankind.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

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

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

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, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

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

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.