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Wisdom Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
- The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one…
- The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
- Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by…
- I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good…
- Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
- The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of…
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold