George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Property is organized robbery.

Ahh, that mountain of self-discovery. Every time you have reached the summit, the clouds clear and you see there is still a ways to go. Don’t look up with thoughts of despair; thinking how much further do I have to go?! Take a moment and look back to see how far you have come. Don’t lose sight of your accomplishments, and focus on the continued commitment to self-discovery and development.

You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.