41 George Bernard Shaw quotes with inspirational life lessons

41 George Bernard Shaw quotes with inspirational life lessons. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. George Bernard Shaw is a leading music and theater critic, he has a literary career as a novelist, he is also a polemicist and political activist. Here are our famous, best inspirational George Bernard Shaw quotes with images.

1. I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - George Bernard Shaw

2. A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. - George Bernard Shaw

3. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. - George Bernard Shaw

4. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. - George Bernard Shaw

5. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

6. Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - George Bernard Shaw

7. You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. - George Bernard Shaw

8. Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. - George Bernard Shaw

9. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw

10. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. - George Bernard Shaw

11. The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. - George Bernard Shaw

12. There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. - George Bernard Shaw

13. A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. - George Bernard Shaw

14. When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. - George Bernard Shaw

15. The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. - George Bernard Shaw

16. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. - George Bernard Shaw

17. There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. - George Bernard Shaw

18. It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having. - George Bernard Shaw

19. A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there. - George Bernard Shaw

20. Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? - George Bernard Shaw

21. What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day. - George Bernard Shaw

22. A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. - George Bernard Shaw

23. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

24. Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. - George Bernard Shaw

25. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. - George Bernard Shaw

26. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. - George Bernard Shaw

27. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

28. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

29. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

30. Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

31. 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. - George Bernard Shaw

32. You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not? - George Bernard Shaw

33. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

34. Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! - George Bernard Shaw

35. The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard Shaw

36. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

37. Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. - George Bernard Shaw

38. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. - George Bernard Shaw

39. War does not decide who is right but who is left. - George Bernard Shaw

40. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. - George Bernard Shaw

41. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. - George Bernard Shaw