H G (Herbert George) Wells quotes

" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. " # Passion # Architecture # Politics

" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. " # Present # Love # Death and Dying

" Human history is in essence a history of ideas. " # Ideas

" Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. " # Truth # Heresy # Churches

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. " # Politicians and Politics # Gambling # Death and Dying

" Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. " # Money # Security # Government

" I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes—to come to this at last. " # Time and Time Management # Dreams # Suicide

" It is a law of Nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers. " # Names # Change # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" "There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope." " # Peace # Sin # Death and Dying

" "We were making the future," he said, "and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!" " # The future