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Thinking Quotes by 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 his circumstances.
- What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
- When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
- Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there.…
- Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of…
- Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the…
- The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the…
- A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
- I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
- We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
- Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
- We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
- It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
- The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what…
- You will think less of the art, when you know the artist
- When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
- Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.
- Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
- Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a…
- The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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