Psychology Quotes by H. G. Wells

11 Psychology quotes by H. G. Wells

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H. G. Wells shares a concise set of thoughts that link the workings of the brain with broader social currents. In eleven lines, he hints at his speculative take on human nature.

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“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even…

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There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars…

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his…

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Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation…

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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of…

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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is…

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Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and…

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I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they…

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The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped…

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An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the…

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…

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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…

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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

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The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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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…

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…

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“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…

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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on…

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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…

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We must end war before war ends us.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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