No man dares say so much of what he thinks as to appear to himself an extremist.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit : to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Those who understand evil pardon it : those who resent it destroy it.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Moderation is never applauded for its own sake.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling ; to the former, infinite.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Greatness is the secular name for Divinity : both mean simply what lies beyond us.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent’s first duty.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge : it is more dangerous than ignorance.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)