George Bernard Shaw on Wisdom
Browse 3 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw, catalogued under wisdom, with dates where available.
This page displays 3 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw and filed under "wisdom" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #214225: "It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period."
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #173158: "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wis…"
3 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw on Wisdom
"It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period."
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men."
"There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery."