Knows Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

— George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

— George Bernard Shaw

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

— George Bernard Shaw

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

— George Bernard Shaw

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

— George Bernard Shaw

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

— George Bernard Shaw

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us…

— George Bernard Shaw

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you?…

— George Bernard Shaw

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically…

— George Bernard Shaw

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to…

— George Bernard Shaw

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like…

— George Bernard Shaw

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There…

— George Bernard Shaw

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

— George Bernard Shaw

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too…

— George Bernard Shaw

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty…

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest…

— George Bernard Shaw

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient…

— George Bernard Shaw

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person…

— George Bernard Shaw

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say…

— George Bernard Shaw

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has…

— George Bernard Shaw

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be…

— George Bernard Shaw

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

— George Bernard Shaw

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than…

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find…

— George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

— George Bernard Shaw

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life,…

— George Bernard Shaw

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

— George Bernard Shaw

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a…

— George Bernard Shaw

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such…

— George Bernard Shaw

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers…

— George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

— George Bernard Shaw

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are…

— George Bernard Shaw