George Bernard Shaw Believe Quotations

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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.

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world