H. G. Wells Quotes

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H. G. Wells

Profession : Author

Birth : September 21, 1866

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. Wells

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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.

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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

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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.

H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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

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Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. Wells