History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSThe 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. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSOnce 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. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLS