George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Foreigners Quotes

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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