"Men are wise in proportion, not to..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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“If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.”
“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”
“If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.”
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“There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.”
“The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.”
“What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.”