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
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are… — 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
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest… — 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
