H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 2

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• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  H. G. Wells

  Beauty, Heart, Beholder

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• To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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  Honesty, Honest, Being Honest

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Year of Prophesying”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

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• He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

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  Doe, Overwhelmed, Contemplating

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• If we don't end war, war will end us.

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  Peace, War, Remembrance

  H. G. Wells (2016). “You Can't Be Too Careful”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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  Wise, Sorry, War

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• If the world does not please you, you can change it.

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  Doe, World, Please

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3162, Delphi Classics

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• The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

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  Teaching, Islamic, Order

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• Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

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  Stronger, Overcoming, Mold

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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  Jealousy, Witty, Humorous

  The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2

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• once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

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  Two, Choices, One Tree Hill Love

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• If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

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  Enough, Achieve, Ends

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• If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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  Book, Writing, Trying

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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

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  Peace, War, Men

  "The Salvaging of Civilization".

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• For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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  People, Giving, Interesting

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• Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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  Delight, Statistics, Scripture

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.6276, Delphi Classics

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

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  Education, Appreciation, Witty

  Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4

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• 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

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  Purpose, Done, Want

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3015, Delphi Classics

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• There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

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  Errors, Race, Evil

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

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  World, Sanity, Lost

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.72, 谷月社

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• It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

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  Morning, Common Sense, Waiting

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• I hope, or I could not live.

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  Start The Day

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.100, 谷月社

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• Strength is the outcome of need.

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  Strength, Needs, Outcomes

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

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  Men, Ends, Found

  "Mr. Britling Sees It Through". Volume 2,

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• We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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  Skills, Creative, World

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16126, Delphi Classics

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• The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

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  Educational, Teaching, Men

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