H. G. Wells Quotes
Born: September 21, 1866
Herbert George Wells, a visionary of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was not merely a writer but a prophet of technological possibility. His legacy rests on seminal works like *The War of the Worlds* and *The Time Machine*, which explored the societal and ethical implications of innovation before it existed. Wells believed that technology was the engine of human destiny, a force for both utopian progress and catastrophic collapse. His quotes resonate because they cut through the noise of their era to ask timeless questions: What will we build, and what will we become? They challenge us to wield our creations with wisdom, making him an enduring voice for the innovators and dreamers who shape our future.
H. G. Wells Quotes (53)
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
— H. G. Wells"If we don't end war, war will end us."
— H. G. Wells"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
— H. G. Wells"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
— H. G. Wells"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."
— H. G. Wells"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."
— H. G. Wells"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
— H. G. Wells"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
— H. G. Wells"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
— H. G. Wells"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
— H. G. Wells"History is a race between education and catastrophe."
— H. G. Wells"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
— H. G. Wells"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
— H. G. Wells"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
— H. G. Wells"Our true nationality is mankind."
— H. G. Wells"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
— H. G. Wells"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
— H. G. Wells"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."
— H. G. Wells"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
— H. G. Wells"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
— H. G. Wells"The past is but the past of a beginning."
— H. G. Wells"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."
— H. G. Wells"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
— H. G. Wells"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
— H. G. Wells"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."
— H. G. Wells"Advertising is legalized lying."
— H. G. Wells"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
— H. G. Wells"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
— H. G. Wells"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."
— H. G. Wells"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought."
— H. G. Wells