Thinking Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

I do not know what I think until I write it.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I never expect a soldier to think.

— George Bernard Shaw

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

— George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

— George Bernard Shaw

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

— George Bernard Shaw

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get…

— George Bernard Shaw

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure…

— George Bernard Shaw

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

— George Bernard Shaw

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on…

— George Bernard Shaw

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

— George Bernard Shaw

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

— George Bernard Shaw

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

— George Bernard Shaw

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to…

— George Bernard Shaw

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury…

— George Bernard Shaw

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's…

— George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once…

— George Bernard Shaw

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very…

— George Bernard Shaw

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like…

— George Bernard Shaw

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of…

— 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

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

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all…

— George Bernard Shaw

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking…

— George Bernard Shaw

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

— George Bernard Shaw

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

— George Bernard Shaw

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

— George Bernard Shaw

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

— George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

— George Bernard Shaw

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

— George Bernard Shaw

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

— George Bernard Shaw