My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. George Bernard Shaw individuality fashion people The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. George Bernard Shaw spiritual people ideas All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. George Bernard Shaw disease half mind Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw break-up love funny We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself. George Bernard Shaw diversity brotherhood helping If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw family dance inspirational Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? George Bernard Shaw marriage blessing people A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. George Bernard Shaw eye belief education The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it. George Bernard Shaw saws evil firsts I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. George Bernard Shaw humorous temptation profound You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. George Bernard Shaw get-well communication life I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw business goal success Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes George Bernard Shaw judgement eggs judging Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father. George Bernard Shaw wise father children Heartbreak is life educating us. George Bernard Shaw pet grieving A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine. George Bernard Shaw vagabonds men two You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything. George Bernard Shaw quantum voice people Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. George Bernard Shaw rebellious perfect said In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key. George Bernard Shaw establishment keys say-anything Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. George Bernard Shaw freedom action men
