Top 450 H. G. Wells Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

— H. G. Wells

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2. “If we don’t end war, war will end us.”

— H. G. Wells

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3. “Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad – or have I?”

— H. G. Wells

4. “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”

— H. G. Wells

5. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”

— H. G. Wells

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6. “Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!”

— H. G. Wells

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7. “Our true nationality is mankind.”

— H. G. Wells

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8. “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

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9. “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

10. “What really matters is what you do with what you have.”

— H. G. Wells

11. “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.”

— H. G. Wells

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12. “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

13. “Advertising is legalized lying.”

— H. G. Wells

14. “If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.”

— H. G. Wells

15. “The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.”

— H. G. Wells

16. “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”

— H. G. Wells

17. “Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.”

— H. G. Wells

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18. “Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”

— H. G. Wells

19. “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

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

— H. G. Wells

21. “No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else’s document.”

— H. G. Wells

22. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

— H. G. Wells

23. “I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.”

— H. G. Wells

24. “We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.”

— H. G. Wells

25. “If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting.”

— H. G. Wells

26. “If we do not end war – war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.”

— H. G. Wells

27. “Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.”

— H. G. Wells

28. “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

— H. G. Wells

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29. “The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”

— H. G. Wells

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30. “Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.”

— H. G. Wells

31. “Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”

— H. G. Wells

32. “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

33. “Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.”

— H. G. Wells

34. “Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”

— H. G. Wells

35. “Good books are the warehouses of ideas.”

— H. G. Wells

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36. “Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.”

— H. G. Wells

37. “We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.”

— H. G. Wells

38. “Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.”

— H. G. Wells

39. “The future is the shape of things to come.”

— H. G. Wells

40. “Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”

— H. G. Wells

41. “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

42. “Cynicism is humor in ill health.”

— H. G. Wells

43. “We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.”

— H. G. Wells

44. “Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”

— H. G. Wells

45. “The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.”

— H. G. Wells

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46. “When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.”

— H. G. Wells

47. “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

48. “There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.”

— H. G. Wells

49. “We’re in a blessed drainpipe, and we’ve got to crawl along it till we die.”

— H. G. Wells

50. “In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.”

— H. G. Wells

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