George Bernard Shaw

“Progress is impossible without change. And those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.”

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.”

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of ar...”

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for...”

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing a...”

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a ce...”

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

“My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.”

“What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.”

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”