H. G. Wells Quotes

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

There's truths you have to grow into.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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 awakening.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

I hope, or I could not live.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough — -as most wrong theories are!

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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