Print the best George Bernard Shaw quotes compiled from the best sources. Mr. Shaw’s quotes are designed to inspire and motivate you with their simplicity and clarity. He is a renowned playwright and social critic who left a legacy of wisdom that resonates with all ages. We have handpicked quotes encapsulating Shaw’s profound ideas in our list.
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40 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
1. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
2. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
3. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
4. “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
5. “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?'”
6. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
7. “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
8. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time.”
9. “The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
10. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
11. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.”
12. “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
13. “A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
14. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.”
15. “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
16. “The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”
17. “Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”
18. “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
19. “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
20. “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
21. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
22. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
23. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
24. “The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”
25. “A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
26. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
27. “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
28. “Youth is wasted on the young.”
29. “The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”
30. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
31. “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
32. “The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”
33. “The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
34. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
35. “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
36. “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
37. “A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.”
38. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
39. “The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”
40. “The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
