Quotes from H. G. Wells

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

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

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

I hope, or I could not live.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.