George Bernard Shaw Quotes, School Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

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