H. G. Wells Quotes, Past Quotes

The past is but the past of a beginning.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Past Quotes

A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Stars Quotes , Hands Quotes

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Interesting Quotes , Ifs Quotes

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , School Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Democracies Have Quotes

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.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Hate Quotes , Gun Quotes

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Change Quotes , Nature Quotes

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Life Quotes , Lying Quotes

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Flower Quotes

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.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Wall Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Russia Quotes , People Quotes

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

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Funny Quotes , Cycling Quotes

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Expectations Quotes , Limits Quotes

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Eye Quotes , Space Quotes

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stronger Quotes

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Heart Quotes

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Attitude Quotes

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Honest Quotes