H. G. Wells

“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”

— H. G. Wells

“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”

— H. G. Wells

“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

“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.”

— H. G. Wells

“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”

— H. G. Wells

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

— H. G. Wells

“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”

— H. G. Wells

“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.”

— H. G. Wells

“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

— H. G. Wells

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

— H. G. Wells

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells