George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Nature Quotes, Lying Quotes

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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