110+ H. G. Wells Quotes On Jesus, Imaginative And Futuristic

H. G. Wells was an English author who wrote science fiction, fantasy and horror stories. He is best known for his novels The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man. He is considered one of the fathers of science fiction and his works have had a lasting influence on the genre. Following is our collection on famous quotes by H. G. Wells on jesus, imaginative, futuristic.

Top 10 H. G. Wells Quotes

1. We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
2. If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
3. It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
4. Our true nationality is mankind.
5. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
6. Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
7. If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
8. I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
9. I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
10. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells Image Quotes

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters. — H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells Short Quotes

• If we don't end war, war will end us.
• What really matters is what you do with what you have.
• The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
• He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
• Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
• The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells Quotes About Jesus

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history. — H. G. Wells

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. — H. G. Wells

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented. — H. G. Wells

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts? — H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quotes About Imaginative

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. — H. G. Wells

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be. — H. G. Wells

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own. — H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quotes About Reasonable

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. — H. G. Wells

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. — 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

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. — H. G. Wells

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl. — H. G. Wells

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world. — H. G. Wells

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller. — H. G. Wells

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.' — H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quotes About Made

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

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of. — H. G. Wells

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. — H. G. Wells

...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea. — H. G. Wells

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. — H. G. Wells

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got. — H. G. Wells

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. — H. G. Wells

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world. — H. G. Wells

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory. — H. G. Wells

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything — H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quotes About Lives

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. — H. G. Wells

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it. — H. G. Wells

I hope, or I could not live. — H. G. Wells

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H. G. Wells

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact. — H. G. Wells

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me. — H. G. Wells

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men. — H. G. Wells

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. — H. G. Wells

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race. — H. G. Wells

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur. — H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quotes About World

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. — H. G. Wells

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. — H. G. Wells

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. — H. G. Wells

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse. — H. G. Wells

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done. — H. G. Wells

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel. — H. G. Wells

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church. — H. G. Wells

A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history. — H. G. Wells

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents. — H. G. Wells

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. — H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Famous Quotes And Sayings

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? — H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe. — H. G. Wells

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters. — H. G. Wells

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered. — H. G. Wells

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — H. G. Wells

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it. — H. G. Wells

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. — H. G. Wells

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

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. — H. G. Wells

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! — H. G. Wells

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. — H. G. Wells

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. — H. G. Wells

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning. — H. G. Wells

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders. — H. G. Wells

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. — H. G. Wells

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. — H. G. Wells

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. — H. G. Wells

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

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany. — H. G. Wells

To be honest, one must be inconsistent. — H. G. Wells

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. — H. G. Wells

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. — H. G. Wells

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. — H. G. Wells

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. — H. G. Wells

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. — H. G. Wells

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells

... life falls into place only with God. — H. G. Wells

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. — H. G. Wells

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. — H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health. — H. G. Wells

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. — 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

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot. — H. G. Wells

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world — H. G. Wells

The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx. — H. G. Wells

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. — H. G. Wells

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands. — H. G. Wells

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. — H. G. Wells

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. — H. G. Wells

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

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. — H. G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world — H. G. Wells

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion — H. G. Wells

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

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. — H. G. Wells

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. — H. G. Wells

We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. — H. G. Wells

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H. G. Wells

The future is the shape of things to come. — H. G. Wells

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way. — H. G. Wells

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. — H. G. Wells

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. — H. G. Wells

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. — H. G. Wells

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby? — H. G. Wells

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? — H. G. Wells

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. — H. G. Wells

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night. — H. G. Wells

Go away... I'm alright. — H. G. Wells

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H. G. Wells

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. — 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

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H. G. Wells

For after the Battle comes quiet. — H. G. Wells

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. — H. G. Wells

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. — H. G. Wells

Life Lessons by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was a prolific English author who wrote a variety of works, including novels, short stories, essays, and non-fiction books. His works often explored themes of progress, science, and technology, and he was a pioneer of the science fiction genre. Through his works, Wells offers readers important lessons about the power of science, the importance of progress, and the potential consequences of unchecked ambition.