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. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the “father of science fiction”, along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback. These HG Wells quotes will motivate you.
Best HG 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
- “…fact takes no heed of human hopes.” ~ 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
- “If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.” ~ 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
- “Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.” ~ 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
- “What really matters is what you do with what you have.” ~ 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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“Our true nationality is mankind.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “There’s truths you have to grow into.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world” ~ 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
- “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” ~ H. G. Wells, HG Wells quotes on war
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“We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Good books are the warehouses of ideas.” ~ H. G. Wells, HG Wells quotes on books
- “Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“If the world does not please you, you can change it.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The past is but the past of a beginning.” ~ 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
- “Be a man!… What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.” ~ 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
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“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.” ~ 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
- “Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Advertising is legalized lying.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Strength is the outcome of need.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.” ~ 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
- “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The future is the shape of things to come.” ~ H. G. Wells
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“Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad–or have I?” ~ 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.” ~ HG Wells Quotes
- “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
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“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else’s document.” ~ 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
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“Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “I don’t think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion” ~ H. G. Wells
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“I hope, or I could not live.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!” ~ H. G. Wells
- “To be honest, one must be inconsistent.” ~ 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
- “Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.” ~ H. G. Wells
