H G Wells Quotes

Enjoy our collection of quotes by famous people like H G Wells. Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866 and died on August 13, 1946. He was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books. Here are two typical quotes; "Human history in essence is the history of ideas.", and "The past is but the past of a beginning."

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H G Wells

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H G Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H G Wells

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

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

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H G Wells

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H G Wells

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

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H G Wells

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H G Wells






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