Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image