H. G. Wells Quotes, Race Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Race Quotes , Civilization Quotes

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Art Quotes , Artist Quotes

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Keys Quotes , Long Quotes

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Pain Quotes , Adaptation Quotes

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , War Quotes , Army Quotes

Only people who are well off can be - complex.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Mother Quotes , Father Quotes

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , World Quotes

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Education Quotes , Learning Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Wealth Of Knowledge Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Victory Quotes