H. G. Wells Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”

“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”