What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSThe 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. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSA 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. WELLSMan 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. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSIn 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. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLS