Top 25 Quotes by H. G. Wells of 355 - Page 9

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Truth, Lying, Men

H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.15, Book Tree

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

H. G. Wells

Inspirational, Children, Doors

I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.

H. G. Wells

Flower, Exercise, Cycling

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

H. G. Wells

Return, Succeed, Going Out

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.13237, Delphi Classics

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

H. G. Wells

Vegetables, Kingdoms, Violence

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

H. G. Wells

Atheist, Heaven, Able

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

H. G. Wells

Clever, Men, Saws

H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

H. G. Wells

Animal, Boys, Pigs

H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.176, H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells

Fire, Numbers, House

1909 The History of Mr Polly, ch.10, pt.1.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

H. G. Wells

Hurt, War, Achievement

H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

H. G. Wells

War, Men, Thinking

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

H. G. Wells

Want, Should, Autobiography

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16948, Delphi Classics

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

H. G. Wells

Baby, Bubbles

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

H. G. Wells

Insomnia, Long, Mind

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

H. G. Wells

Destiny, Men, Littles

H. G. Wells (2015). “The First Men In The Moon: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

H. G. Wells

Government, Ostriches, Eagles

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

Teacher, Jesus, Retirement

H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.154, Xist Publishing

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

H. G. Wells

Moving, Adventure, Mean

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3014, Delphi Classics

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

H. G. Wells

Philosophy, Army, Men

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.521, e-artnow

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

H. G. Wells

Beach, Heart, Men

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

H. G. Wells

Men, Chess, Curse

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

H. G. Wells

Lying, Order, World

The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.

H. G. Wells

Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

"Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life And Thought". Book by H. G. Wells, www.gutenberg.org. 1902.

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

H. G. Wells

Blow, Men, Air

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3987, e-artnow