George Bernard Shaw

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Energy doesn’t lie so trust those vibes you’re getting.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.