H. G. Wells Quotes, Past Quotes, Experience Quotes

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

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What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

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When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

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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 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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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

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Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

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

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The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

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No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

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