Quotes By H. G. Wells

If we don't end war, war will end us.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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

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

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.