1. “You can’t see beauty with miserable eyes.” – H. G. Wells
2. “The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.” – H. G. Wells
3. “The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.” – H. G. Wells
4. “Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.” – H. G. Wells
5. “Good books are the warehouses of ideas.” – H. G. Wells
6. “So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.” – H. G. Wells
7. “The tame ones will go like all tame beasts; in a few generations they’ll be big, beautiful, rich-blooded, stupid – rubbish!” – H. G. Wells
8. “An invisible man is a man with power.” – H. G. Wells
9. “In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.” – H. G. Wells
10. “The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.” – H. G. Wells
11. “States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs…” – H. G. Wells
12. “There was no amazement, but only an impression of delightful rightness, of being reminded of happy things that had in some strange way been overlooked.” – H. G. Wells
13. “Cynicism is humor in ill health.” – H. G. Wells
14. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
15. “Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!” – H. G. Wells
16. “Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.” – H. G. Wells
17. “He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.” – H. G. Wells
18. “We’ve got to escape from narrowness. We’re a movement, not a conspiracy. We’ve got to radiate contacts, and have as many people aware of us as possible. That’s living, modern common sense.” – H. G. Wells
19. “Advertising is legalized lying.” – H. G. Wells
20. “In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.” – H. G. Wells
21. “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” – H. G. Wells
22. “The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.” – H. G. Wells
23. “This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.” – H. G. Wells
24. “Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.” – H. G. Wells
25. “Strength is the outcome of need.” – H. G. Wells
26. “We’re in a blessed drainpipe, and we’ve got to crawl along it till we die.” – H. G. Wells
27. “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.” – H. G. Wells
28. “Something – exactly like a finger and thumb it felt – nipped my nose.” – H. G. Wells
29. “Like a committee in a thieves’ kitchen when someone has casually mentioned the law.” – H. G. Wells
30. “There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.” – H. G. Wells
31. “I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day.” – H. G. Wells
32. “I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.” – H. G. Wells
33. “Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.” – H. G. Wells
34. “Oh God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest?” – H. G. Wells
35. “IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.” – H. G. Wells
36. “Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.” – H. G. Wells
37. “We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories… And those that carry us forward, are dreams.” – H. G. Wells
38. “Looks to me like the sort of fellow one doesn’t play cards with.” – H. G. Wells
39. “Civilization is a race between disaster and education.” – H. G. Wells
40. “There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.” – H. G. Wells
41. “He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.” – H. G. Wells
42. “You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable – but teach him, inoculate him with chess.” – H. G. Wells
43. “There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.” – H. G. Wells
44. “You’ve made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.” – H. G. Wells
45. “A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,“Was there ever such a world?”” – H. G. Wells
46. “The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.” – H. G. Wells
47. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells
48. “You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk, even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness.” – H. G. Wells
49. “Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.” – H. G. Wells
50. “A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.” – H. G. Wells
51. “All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.” – H. G. Wells
52. “Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.” – H. G. Wells
53. “I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.” – H. G. Wells
54. “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.” – H. G. Wells
55. “Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.” – H. G. Wells
56. “Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.” – H. G. Wells
57. “It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.” – H. G. Wells
58. “I suppose I am fairly alert and interested in people, and that is my most attractive quality.” – H. G. Wells
59. “Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.” – H. G. Wells
60. “Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.” – H. G. Wells
61. “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.” – H. G. Wells
62. “He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man, but the sight of his victim, his first victim, bloody and pitiful at his feet, may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived.” – H. G. Wells
63. “After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.” – H. G. Wells
64. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells
65. “Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the same silver river running between its fertile banks.” – H. G. Wells
66. “I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.” – H. G. Wells
67. “It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.” – H. G. Wells
68. “Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” – H. G. Wells
69. “There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.” – H. G. Wells
70. “The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.” – H. G. Wells
71. “The stranger swore briefly but vividly.” – H. G. Wells
72. “Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad – or have I?” – H. G. Wells
73. “A real value of a talk is not how it goes but what it leaves in your memory, which is one reason perhaps why dialogues in books are always so boring to read.” – H. G. Wells
74. “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” – H. G. Wells
75. “A boy is a creature of odd feelings.” – H. G. Wells
76. “Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.” – H. G. Wells
77. “I write to cover a frame of ideas.” – H. G. Wells
78. “Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it.” – H. G. Wells
79. “Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done.” – H. G. Wells
80. “Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.” – H. G. Wells
81. “When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.” – H. G. Wells
82. “In another place was a vast array of idols – Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.” – H. G. Wells
83. “You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.” – H. G. Wells
84. “I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.” – H. G. Wells
85. “And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained.” – H. G. Wells
86. “For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then – nothingness, no visible thing at all!” – H. G. Wells
87. “There were half a dozen villas burning on the Woking border.” – H. G. Wells
88. “Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.” – H. G. Wells
89. “After a lapse of fifteen years he rediscovered this interesting world, about which so many people go incredibly blind and bored.” – H. G. Wells
90. “The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.” – H. G. Wells
91. “If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.” – H. G. Wells
92. “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” – H. G. Wells
93. “For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.” – H. G. Wells
94. “I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.” – H. G. Wells
95. “What really matters is what you do with what you have.” – H. G. Wells
96. “It’s chance, I tell you,′ he interrupted, ′ as everything is in a man’s life.” – H. G. Wells
97. “There is only one sort of man who is absolutely to blame for his own misery, and that is the man who finds life dull and dreary.” – H. G. Wells
98. “Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.” – H. G. Wells
99. “This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.” – H. G. Wells
100. “No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else’s document.” – H. G. Wells
101. “One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.” – H. G. Wells
102. “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.” – H. G. Wells
103. “I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised.” – H. G. Wells