H. G. Wells Quotes

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."

"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."

"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

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

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"The past is but the past of a beginning."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."

"Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."