“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
Author
George Bernard Shaw
117 quotes
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
More from George Bernard Shaw
“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history; that man can never learn anything from history.”
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”
“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”
“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”
“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”