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George Bernard Shaw

Quote of George Bernard Shaw - Life is a flame that is...


Biography - George Bernard Shaw:

Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.



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Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes

Quotes for: child


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.











Quotes

Quotes for: fire


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.





Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.





One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.





This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.





Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.





As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.











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George Bernard Shaw also said...


Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.





All great truths begin as blasphemies.





Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.





Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.





The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.





Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.












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