George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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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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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

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