19 quotes by H. G. Wells

Time
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
4.7 · 11 votes · 142 reads
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Time
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
3.3 · 14 votes · 156 reads
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Time
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
4.7 · 21 votes · 9 reads
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Various
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
3.8 · 48 votes · 194 reads
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Time
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakeni
3.8 · 37 votes · 139 reads
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Nature
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
4.2 · 5 votes · 150 reads
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Various
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
3.4 · 47 votes · 25 reads
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Virtues
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
5.0 · 34 votes · 87 reads
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Time
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
3.4 · 49 votes · 29 reads
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Society
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.
4.3 · 37 votes · 110 reads
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Society
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.
4.2 · 61 votes · 92 reads
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Society
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
3.7 · 22 votes · 103 reads
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Nature
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.
4.5 · 27 votes · 134 reads
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Defects
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
3.9 · 32 votes · 163 reads
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