George Bernard Shaw Quotes

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

  

  Ian Botham
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• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'

  

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• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
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• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
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• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

  

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  • Long
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• I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

  

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• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

  

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• There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  

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• If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

  

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• Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values-inexperienceable-which we serve.

  

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• Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

  

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• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

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• It was the most enthralling episode in my life

  

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• Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.

  

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• Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

  

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• I'm just a citizen of the world.

  

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  • World

• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

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• In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Earth
  • Believed
  • Flat