George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose 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, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge and not knowledge in pursuit of the child
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.