"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"
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George Bernard Shaw
41 quotes
Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"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 I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
"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."
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."
"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."
"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination"
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."