George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Wise

“Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.”

Science Simple Profound

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Sad

“And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.”

Peace Death Tired

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Funny

“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”

Inspirational Witty Dance

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Courageous

“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”

Health Social

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Philosophical

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

Religion Fear

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Philosophical

“The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.”

Years Lying Nature

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Philosophical

“For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.”

Book Science Dark

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Creative

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

Funny Humor Beauty

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Spiritual

“The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.”

World Home Profound

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Courageous

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

Children Parent Example

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Funny

“Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?”

Science Nice Teaching

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Creative

“I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.”

Art Blessed Beauty

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