Words matter. These are the best H. G. Wells Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Advertising is legalized lying.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
