215 Quotes by H.G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

There is very little deliberate wickedness in the world. The stupidity of our selfishness gives much the same results indeed, but in the ethical laboratory it shows a different nature.

There are occasions when a moralising novelist can merely wring his hands and leave matters to take their course.

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.

If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.