I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
-
-
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLS -
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLS -
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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 -
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLS -
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 -
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 -
We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLS -
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLS -
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLS -
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLS -
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLS -
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS -
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS -
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLS