“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Reading #Quotes

“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” (1903), act 4 Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Life #Quotes

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Democracy #Quotes

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard on Cynicism #Quotes

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t … Continue reading → Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Wisdom #Quotes

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969) Continue reading Dwight D. Eisenhower on Intellectuals #Quotes

“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” (1903), act I Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Shame #Quotes

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969) Continue reading Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society #Quotes

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Politics #Quotes

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Continue reading Dwight D. Eisenhower on War #Quotes

“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on England and America #Quotes

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Continue reading Dwight D. Eisenhower on Peace #Quotes

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Liberty #Quotes

“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th president of US … Continue reading → Continue reading Dwight D. Eisenhower on Television #Quotes

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” George Bernard Shaw Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Experience #Quotes

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on History #Quotes

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950) Continue reading George Bernard Shaw on Education #Quotes