Quotes from H. G. Wells

... life falls into place only with God.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

Strength is the outcome of need.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

The 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.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

In 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.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.