George Bernard Shaw quotes
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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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
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. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.