119 quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history; that man can never learn anything from history.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” — George Bernard Shaw

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