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Quotes of George B Shaw [31]
- What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- We sing in a church - why should we not dance there?
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
- All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- We are made wise not by recollection of our past but by responsibility for our future.
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead; ahead of myself as well as you.
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!
- Happiness and beauty are by-products.
- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
- You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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