It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do. H. G. Wells mechanicwarriorthinking But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter. H. G. Wells waitinglongyears Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact. H. G. Wells moldstrongerovercoming ... life falls into place only with God. H. G. Wells god-lifelifefall Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians. H. G. Wells sensitivetheologianscience If the world does not please you, you can change it. H. G. Wells pleasedoeworld Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells jealousyhumorouswitty To be honest, one must be inconsistent. H. G. Wells being-honesthonesthonesty Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go. H. G. Wells moonadventuremen 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 errorsraceevil 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 mindinsomnialong 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 doubtinspirationalbelieve If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve. H. G. Wells achieveendsenough 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 palestinehistoricalfacts ...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 russiamadepeople 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 warhandspeople The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. H. G. Wells mothersuccessteacher We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. H. G. Wells experienceeventspast Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. H. G. Wells fearmenlying 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 animalpigsboys
