H. G. Wells

Quotes

• “We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hard...”
• “While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though ...”
• “There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simpl...”
• “Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fit...”
• “I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and flou...”
• “After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
• “The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”
• “It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.”
• “Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”
• “Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
• “Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.”
• “The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.”
• “Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.”
• “I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”
• “He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.”
• “History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
• “Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
• “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
• “The future is the shape of things to come.”
• “Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.”
• “To be honest one must be inconsistent.”
• “If we don't end war, war will end us.”