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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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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