Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Power doesn't corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.