Welcome to our collection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes by the renowned author, H. G. Wells. Hailed as one of the pioneers of science fiction literature, Herbert George Wells, commonly known as H. G. Wells, captivated readers with his visionary imagination and keen observations of the human condition. Throughout his prolific career, Wells penned numerous novels, short stories, and essays that continue to inspire and intrigue audiences worldwide.
Born in 1866 in Bromley, England, Wells demonstrated a remarkable ability to explore complex ideas through his writing, delving into themes such as time travel, evolution, and the consequences of scientific progress. His works, including classics like The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man, remain enduring staples of the science fiction genre, celebrated for their imaginative storytelling and profound insights into society and humanity’s future. Whether portraying fantastical adventures or dystopian futures, Wells’ literature continues to resonate with readers, inviting them to contemplate the possibilities of the unknown and the implications of technological advancement.
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
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H. G. Wells
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth. H. G. Wells
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. 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
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
What really matters is what you do with what you have. H. G. Wells
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. H. G. Wells
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
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. H. G. Wells
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. 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
Advertising is legalized lying. H. G. Wells
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. H. G. Wells
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. H. G. Wells
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft. H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humor in ill health. H. G. Wells
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
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. 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
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. 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
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
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. 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
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law. H. G. Wells
The past is but the past of a beginning. H. G. Wells
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own. H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells
If we don’t end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H. G. Wells
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
Our true nationality is mankind. H. G. Wells
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. H. G. Wells
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do 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
History is a race between education and catastrophe. 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
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
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
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. 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
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. H. G. Wells
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. H. G. Wells
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. H. G. Wells