My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWImitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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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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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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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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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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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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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
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