H. G. Wells Quotes

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

H. G. Wells
(The Salvaging of Civilization, 1921)

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

H. G. Wells (A Short History of the World, 1922)

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells (Crux Ansatam, 1944)

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

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells (Things to Come, 1936)

Advertising is legalized lying. 

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells (The Outline of History, 1920)

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H. G. Wells

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

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 (A Modern Utopia, 1905)

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

H. G. Wells

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H. G. Wells

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)

Cynicism is humor in ill health. 

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.

H. G. Wells (Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education, 1918)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells (The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman, 1914)

For neither do men live nor die in vain.

H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)

To grow and still to grow, that is the law of life. What other law can there be?

H. G. Wells (The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, 1904)

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth.

H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)

Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. Wells
(The Outline of History, 1920)

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells

Great and little cannot understand one another... But in every child born of man, lurks some seed of greatness.

H. G. Wells (The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, 1904)

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H. G. Wells (A Modern Utopia, 1905)

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

H. G. Wells (The Discovery of the Future, 1901)

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 (A Modern Utopia, 1905)

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

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