Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H. G. Wells
Civilisation is a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H. G. Wells
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
-- H. G. Wells
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
-- H. G. Wells
The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.
-- H. G. Wells
A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.
-- H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress.
-- H. G. Wells
Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out it's realm amidst the stars.
-- 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
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
-- H. G. Wells
Advertising is legalized lying.
-- H. G. Wells
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
-- H. G. Wells
In the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.
-- H. G. Wells
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
-- H. G. Wells
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
-- 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
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
-- H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
-- H. G. Wells
Exuberance is beauty.
-- H. G. Wells
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
-- H. G. Wells
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
-- H. G. Wells
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
-- H. G. Wells
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
-- H. G. Wells
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
-- 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
It's not true that the more sex that you have, the more it interferes with your work. I find that the more sex you have, the better work you do.
-- 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
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-- H. G. Wells
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
-- H. G. Wells
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
-- H. G. Wells
Our true nationality is mankind.
-- H. G. Wells
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
-- H. G. Wells
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
-- 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
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.
-- H. G. Wells
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
-- H. G. Wells
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
-- H. G. Wells
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
-- H. G. Wells
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
We were making the future, he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!
-- H. G. Wells
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
-- H. G. Wells
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
-- H. G. Wells
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
-- H. G. Wells
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