George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 3

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite.

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."

[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.