Quotes by H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

If we dont end war, war will end us.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a States failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The uglier a mans legs are, the better he plays golf - its almost a law.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is natures inexorable imperative.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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.

Theres nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didnt abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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

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

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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.

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

Heresies are experiments in mans unsatisfied search for truth.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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

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