H. G. Wells Quotes & Quotations
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - 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
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. - H. G. Wells
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. - H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humour in ill health. - H. G. Wells
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. - H. G. Wells
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. - H. G. Wells
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. - 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 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
If we don't end war, war will end us. - 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
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
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
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. - 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
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 in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. - H. G. Wells
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. - 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
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. - H. G. Wells
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. - H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humour in ill health. - H. G. Wells
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. - H. G. Wells
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. - 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 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
If we don't end war, war will end us. - 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
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
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
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. - 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
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 in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. - H. G. Wells
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. - H. G. Wells