H. G. Wells Quotes

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Mind at the End of Its Tether. - H. G. Wells quote.
Mind at the End of Its Tether.
— H. G. Wells

mind

Advertising is legalized lying. - H. G. Wells quote.
Advertising is legalized lying.
— H. G. Wells Across the Board

advertising

Cynicism is humor in ill-health. - H. G. Wells quote.
Cynicism is humor in ill-health.
— H. G. Wells

cynicism

Our true nationality is mankind. - H. G. Wells quote.
Our true nationality is mankind.
— H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humour in ill health. - H. G. Wells quote.
Cynicism is humour in ill health.
— H. G. Wells

cynicism

To be honest, one must be inconsistent. - H. G. Wells quote.
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
— H. G. Wells

honesty

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells quote.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
— H. G. Wells The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

morals jealousy judging indignation outrage

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. - H. G. Wells quote.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
— H. G. Wells
Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of. - H. G. Wells quote.
Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.
— H. G. Wells The Happy Turning

religion

Human history is in essence a history of ideas. - H. G. Wells quote.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
— H. G. Wells The Outline of History

history

Human history in essence is the history of ideas. - H. G. Wells quote.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
— H. G. Wells
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. - H. G. Wells quote.
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
— H. G. Wells The Time Machine

pain necessity

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. - H. G. Wells quote.
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
— H. G. Wells

education

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. - H. G. Wells quote.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
— H. G. Wells

time

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. - H. G. Wells quote.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
— H. G. Wells

religion

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells quote.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
— H. G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

nature change

Before people can come to Utopia, they must learn the way there. - H. G. Wells quote.
Before people can come to Utopia, they must learn the way there.
— H. G. Wells
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. - H. G. Wells quote.
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
— H. G. Wells
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography. - H. G. Wells quote.
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
— H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography

ego autobiography

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. - H. G. Wells quote.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
— H. G. Wells

golf

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells quote.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
— H. G. Wells The Outline of History

education history

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. - H. G. Wells quote.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
— H. G. Wells The Writer’s Chapbook

editors

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. - H. G. Wells quote.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
— H. G. Wells Kipps: the Story of a Simple Soul

friendship

Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. - H. G. Wells quote.
Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
— H. G. Wells Love and Mr. Lewisham

lies

Power is no more to be committed to men without discipline and restriction than alcohol. - H. G. Wells quote.
Power is no more to be committed to men without discipline and restriction than alcohol.
— H. G. Wells The Time Machine

power

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness. - H. G. Wells quote.
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.
— H. G. Wells
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. - H. G. Wells quote.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
— H. G. Wells A Modern Utopia

truth mind

The past is the beginning of beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. - H. G. Wells quote.
The past is the beginning of beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
— H. G. Wells
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. - H. G. Wells quote.
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
— H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography

biography

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within—not without. It is each man's own affair. - H. G. Wells quote.
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within—not without. It is each man's own affair.
— H. G. Wells When the Sleeper Wakes

self-control

Leaders I feel should guide as far as they can—and then vanish.  Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. - H. G. Wells quote.
Leaders I feel should guide as far as they can—and then vanish.  Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
— H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography

leadership

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. - H. G. Wells quote.
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.
— H. G. Wells
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise.... Attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. - H. G. Wells quote.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise.... Attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
— H. G. Wells The Scarlet Tree

writing advice

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 quote.
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 A Modern Utopia

nature mankind man the animal

The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster in his history lessons. - H. G. Wells quote.
The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster in his history lessons.
— H. G. Wells
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. - H. G. Wells quote.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
— H. G. Wells

military

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one.  If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize. - H. G. Wells quote.
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one.  If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
— H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain

Brain

If Max gets to Heaven he won't last long.  He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell . . . after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course. - H. G. Wells quote.
If Max gets to Heaven he won't last long.  He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell . . . after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
— H. G. Wells Beaverbrook
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, and which plays so small a part in Christian Creeds, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. - H. G. Wells quote.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, and which plays so small a part in Christian Creeds, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
— H. G. Wells The Outline of History

heaven

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible.  It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world. - H. G. Wells quote.
About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible.  It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.