H. G. Wells Quotes, Crush Quotes, Truth Quotes

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

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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.

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The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

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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.

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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

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We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

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There's truths you have to grow into.

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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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

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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

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We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.

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If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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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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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

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