George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Wise Quotes, Trouble Quotes

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?

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the shell must break before the bird can fly.

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As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

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The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

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