H. G. Wells Quotes (77 Quotes)

With the Toubou we are hoping to find out who were the first people to settle in the Sahara,

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

Advertising is legalized lying.

IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

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

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

By ten o'clock the police organization, and by midday even the railway organizations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

So what we can answer as geneticists is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology,

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

It was tough going. His world was in the grips of the last Ice Age. In Southern Africa it was drier than now, water was difficult to obtain and so were animals,

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

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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?

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

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.

But the question of how we migrated around the planet, how we populated the world, in effect, is still an open one.

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

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

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.

Our true nationality is mankind.