7 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Knowledge

George Bernard Shaw quotes on knowledge

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

39. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

81. Senor Commander: I do not blame your disgust: a picture gallery is a dull place for a blind man. But even as you enjoy the contemplation of such romantic mirages as beauty and pleasure; so would I enjoy the contemplation of that which interests me above all things namely, Life: the force that ever strives to attain greater power of contemplating itself. What made this brain of mine, do you think? Not the need to move my limbs; for a rat with half my brains moves as well as I. Not merely the need to do, but the need to know what I do, lest in my blind efforts to live I should be slaying myself.

142. You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

181. There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.

212. If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas.

229. 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.[1]