George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Understanding Quotes

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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An index is a great leveller.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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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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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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