The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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