George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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Property is organized robbery.

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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

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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 only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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