H. G. Wells

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Motivational #Strength #Success

“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

#Life #Being Yourself #Time

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Education #Teacher #Appreciation

“Our true nationality is mankind.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Life #Racism #Brotherhood

“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

#Inspirational #Dream #Time

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

#Writing #Thinking #One Day

“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”
-- H. G. Wells

#War #Army #Air

“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

#Life Changing #Science #Needs

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

#Book #Writing #Trying

“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.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Men #Years #Water

“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Life #Second Chance #Today

“I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Writing #Way #Walks

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Jealousy #Witty #Humorous

“A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Children #Mean #Opportunity

“There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?”
-- H. G. Wells

#Lying #Silly #Light

“once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Two #Choices #Losing Yourself

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

#Time #Moving #Space

“It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin”
-- H. G. Wells

“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

#Stars #Space #Forever

“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

#Jesus #Nazareth #Christ

“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

#Dream #Land #Clouds

“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

#Way #Faces #Watches

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Inspirational #Funny #Graduation

“When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Men #Bed #Twenties

“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

#Purpose #Done #Want

“To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Teaching #Mean #College

“When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Greatness #Men #Realizing

“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

#Eye #Space #Mind

“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. 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. 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.”
-- H. G. Wells

#Reading #Night #Men

“Good books are the warehouses of ideas.”
-- H. G. Wells