Quotes by H. G. Wells

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

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

— H. G. Wells

Hope

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

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

— H. G. Wells

Love

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

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

— H. G. Wells

Success

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

Wisdom

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

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

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

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

Education

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

— H. G. Wells

Life

Advertising is legalized lying.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

— H. G. Wells

Life

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

Success

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

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

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

— H. G. Wells

Education

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

Our true nationality is mankind.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom

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

Life

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

— H. G. Wells

Wisdom