One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

—George Bernard Shaw

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...

More quotations from George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

—George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair.

—George Bernard Shaw

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

—George Bernard Shaw

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

—George Bernard Shaw

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

—George Bernard Shaw

More quotations tagged with “intelligence”

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

—Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth—more than ruin—more even than death.… Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

—Bertrand Russell

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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