Quote

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

H. G. Wells

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Historian
Idist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
Bromley
London
Wells
Herbert George
Herbert George Wells
H.G. Wells
Lives
Swim
Power
Possibilities
Human
Dawn
Impresses
Humans
Expectations
Apprehend
Life
Limits
Expectation
Possibility
Impress
Existence
Increasing
Knowledge
Perpetual

More quotes by H. G. Wells

Image
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
H. G. Wells
Image
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells
Image
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
Image
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
H. G. Wells
Image
We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!
H. G. Wells
Image
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
Image
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
H. G. Wells
Image
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
Image
The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
H. G. Wells
Image
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
H. G. Wells
Image
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
H. G. Wells
Image
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
H. G. Wells
Image
The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.
H. G. Wells
Image
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
H. G. Wells
Image
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
H. G. Wells
Image
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
Image
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.
H. G. Wells
Image
Strength is the outcome of need.
H. G. Wells
Image
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
H. G. Wells
Image
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
H. G. Wells