A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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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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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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