H. G. Wells Quotes


40 quotes:

"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."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Success Quotes
"Go away, I'm all right!"
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Solitude Quotes
"Fools make researches and wise men exploit them."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Research Quotes
"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."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Humankind Quotes
"Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: History Quotes
"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: History And Historians Quotes
"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Golf Quotes
"Security puts a premium on feebleness."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Funny Quotes Security Quotes
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Morality Quotes
"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: Evolution Quotes
"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes
"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes
"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes
"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Knowledge Quotes
"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Meaning Quotes
"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Living Quotes
"The past is but the past of a beginning."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes
"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes
"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
Author: Wells Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Truth Quotes

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