George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young. ”

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ”

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ”

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. ”

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. ”

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. ”

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ”

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. ”

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. ”

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place. ”