George Bernard Shaw

How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

First and foremost, it’s going to be treat others with respect. Be polite: Manners go a long way. Try to come from a good place. And aside from that, stay focused and do the right thing.

The sun is but a morning star.

It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.