George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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To be a champion you must live like one.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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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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