649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

We must end war before war ends us.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

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

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.

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

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice