The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image