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 Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. George Bernard Shaw recollection feels memories There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates. George Bernard Shaw play men years I want to be all used up when I die. George Bernard Shaw dying inspirational death When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw sad military inspirational It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. George Bernard Shaw faith work inspirational It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it. George Bernard Shaw political animal men We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to. George Bernard Shaw not-good-enough educate half Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving. George Bernard Shaw tired men moving Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw crazy reading believe Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside. George Bernard Shaw religious death people After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere. George Bernard Shaw wrong-road Very few people can afford to be poor. George Bernard Shaw poor people All progress means war with society. George Bernard Shaw progress-of-society war mean Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. George Bernard Shaw gardening garden jobs You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. George Bernard Shaw beautiful beauty art Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. George Bernard Shaw proletariat socialism economics All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. George Bernard Shaw censorship progress challenges I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. George Bernard Shaw humor atheist god Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw wisdom wise inspirational Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. George Bernard Shaw wealth poor firsts
