Top 450 H. G. Wells Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs...”

— H. G. Wells

52. “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

53. “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

54. “The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

— H. G. Wells

55. “There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”

— H. G. Wells

56. “By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”

— H. G. Wells

57. “Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”

— H. G. Wells

58. “Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.”

— H. G. Wells

59. “I would rather be called a journalist than an artist.”

— H. G. Wells

60. “Hunger makes a fool of a man.”

— H. G. Wells

61. “Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.”

— H. G. Wells

62. “The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.”

— H. G. Wells

63. “Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”

— H. G. Wells

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64. “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.”

— H. G. Wells

65. “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.”

— H. G. Wells

66. “Alone – it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.”

— H. G. Wells

67. “The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.”

— H. G. Wells

68. “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

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69. “To be honest, one must be inconsistent.”

— H. G. Wells

70. “It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew’s ancestors ‘never’ lived in Palestine ‘at all,’ which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.”

— H. G. Wells

71. “Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.”

— H. G. Wells

72. “A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.”

— H. G. Wells

73. “The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world.”

— H. G. Wells

74. “Ignorance is not an extension of time.”

— H. G. Wells

75. “In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.”

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

77. “The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.”

— H. G. Wells

78. “He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.”

— H. G. Wells

79. “For after the Battle comes quiet.”

— H. G. Wells

80. “Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.”

— H. G. Wells

81. “Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.”

— H. G. Wells

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82. “An invisible man is a man with power.”

— H. G. Wells

83. “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

84. “The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.”

— H. G. Wells

85. “It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.”

— H. G. Wells

86. “Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.”

— H. G. Wells

87. “Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can’t be done.”

— H. G. Wells

88. “I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.”

— H. G. Wells

89. “Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?”

— H. G. Wells

90. “Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.”

— H. G. Wells

91. “I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion.”

— H. G. Wells

92. “The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.”

— H. G. Wells

93. “The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.”

— H. G. Wells

94. “All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”

— H. G. Wells

95. “The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

— H. G. Wells

96. “I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.”

— H. G. Wells

97. “No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.”

— H. G. Wells

98. “One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.”

— H. G. Wells

99. “In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.”

— H. G. Wells

100. “Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.”

— H. G. Wells