George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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Remember that I too am mortal.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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