George Bernard Shaw

17 Quotes

Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

1

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

2

Those who cant change their minds cannot change anything.

3

Write your sad times in sand and your good times in stone.

4

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

5

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

6

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

7

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

8

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

9

Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. They may have different tastes.

10

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

11

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

12

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else-s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

13

Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

14

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

15

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they make them.

16

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

17

All great truths begin as blasphemies.