The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
-
-
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WELLS -
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLS -
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLS -
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. WELLS -
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLS -
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS -
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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 -
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLS -
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.
H. G. WELLS -
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLS -
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLS -
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLS -
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLS -
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLS