H. G. Wells

Advertising is legalized lying…

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo…

Human history in essence is the history of ideas…

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge…

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us…

If we don’t end war, war will end us…

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything…

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them…

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is…

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does…

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth…

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out…

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done…

History is a race between education and catastrophe…

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the…