All great truths begin as blasphemies.

—George Bernard Shaw

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About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

—George Bernard Shaw

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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

—George Bernard Shaw

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

—George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

—Jessamyn West

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

—Harry S. Truman

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