George Bernard Shaw

(112 votes)   The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(111 votes)   In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(109 votes)   It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw

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(106 votes)   Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

George Bernard Shaw
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(106 votes)   What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(105 votes)   The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(103 votes)   A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(103 votes)   The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(103 votes)   When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(100 votes)   He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(100 votes)   The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(100 votes)   When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(99 votes)   Better never than late.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(99 votes)   But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(99 votes)   What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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