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[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
– George Bernard Shaw

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  2. Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
  3. [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. – George Bernard Shaw
  4. Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman
  5. A fool can’t help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all. – DaShanne Stokes
  6. It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’sto keep unmarried as long as he can. – George Bernard Shaw
  7. One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t. – George Bernard Shaw
  8. 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. – George Bernard Shaw
  9. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
  10. HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. – George Bernard Shaw
  11. What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing. – George Bernard Shaw
  12. A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. – Dgen
  13. A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough. – Robert Jordan
  14. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more – George Bernard Shaw
  15. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
  16. There is always danger for those who are afraid. – George Bernard Shaw
  17. If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George Bernard Shaw
  18. A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. – George Bernard Shaw
  19. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
  20. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
  21. You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw
  22. Hell is full of musical amateurs. – George Bernard Shaw
  23. 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
  24. Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
  25. We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw
  26. Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! – George Bernard Shaw
  27. The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. – George Bernard Shaw
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. – George Bernard Shaw
  31. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
  32. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
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  35. The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. – George Bernard Shaw
  36. If we women were particular about men’s characters, we should never get married at all. – George Bernard Shaw
  37. At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. – George Bernard Shaw
  38. I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you. – George Bernard Shaw
  39. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
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