Quotes by H. G. Wells

“Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.”

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”

“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”

“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

“He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.”

“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.”

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”

“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

“once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.”

“Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.”

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

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

“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”

“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!”

“What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?”

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

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

“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”

“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”

“What really matters is what you do with what you have.”

“Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

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

“There's truths you have to grow into.”

“Advertising is legitimised lying.”

“Our true nationality is mankind.”

“I hope, or I could not live.”