Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. This H G Wells Quotes on Jesus, statics, will motivate you.
Best H G Wells Quotes
- “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “What really matters is what you do with what you have.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than ‘the gang in possession,’ and its days are numbered.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Our true nationality is mankind.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“If the world does not please you, you can change it.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Good books are the warehouses of ideas.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “If your life doesn’t end in failure, you haven’t reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.” ~ 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
- “Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Advertising is legalized lying.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “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.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “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.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.” ~ 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.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “… life falls into place only with God.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “We should strive to welcome change and challenges because they are what help us grow. Without them, we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it…Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!” ~ H. G. Wells
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“Strength is the outcome of need.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else’s document.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world” ~ H. G. Wells
- “There’s nothing wrong in suffering if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. […] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single-minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room – in moments of devotion, a temple – and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated – darkness still.” ~ H G Wells Quotes
- “To be honest, one must be inconsistent.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end, you will find clues to it all.” ~ H. G. Wells
