"You cannot learn to skate without making..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.”

“I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.”

“I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.”

“Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.”

“No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!”

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”

“When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.”

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”