Time For H. G. Wells Quotes

"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning." H. G. Wells

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit." H. G. Wells

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder." H. G. Wells

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own." H. G. Wells

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise." H. G. Wells

"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something." H. G. Wells

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H. G. Wells

"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table." H. G. Wells

"Our true nationality is mankind." H. G. Wells

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." H. G. Wells

Wells pictured some time before 1916

Herbert George "H.G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was a British author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games. Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".

Wells's earliest specialized training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as the beginning of the First World War) sympathizing with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of "Journalist."
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"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge." H. G. Wells

"If we don't end war, war will end us." H. G. Wells

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas." H. G. Wells

"History is a race between education and catastrophe." H. G. Wells

"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable." H. G. Wells

"The past is but the past of a beginning." 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

"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

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." H. G. Wells

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." 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

"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

"The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships." H. G. Wells

"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own." H. G. Wells

"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist." H. G. Wells

"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good." 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

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser." H. G. Wells

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law." H. G. Wells

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." H. G. Wells

"Cynicism is humor in ill health." H. G. Wells

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth." H. G. Wells

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." H. G. Wells

"What really matters is what you do with what you have." H. G. Wells

"Advertising is legalized lying." H. G. Wells