Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Those who can't change their minds can't change anything.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.