H. G. Wells Quotes, Thinking Quotes

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

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You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

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To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

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Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

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The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

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Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

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Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

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'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

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