What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard ShawRead
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Interpretation
Silence can be a powerful virtue that allows us to understand others while keeping our own flaws hidden.
In this quote, George Bernard Shaw suggests that choosing silence as a virtue enables us to listen to others and recognize their faults without exposing our own shortcomings. This reflects the idea that by remaining quiet, we not only gain insight into the imperfections of those around us, but we also maintain a level of modesty and humility about ourselves.
In practice
In a speech about effective communication, I might say, 'As George Bernard Shaw wisely noted, choose silence of all virtues.'
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
The best thing for your psyche as you try to accomplish anything, really, is to just concentrate on all the little things. And not just as a means to an end, but truly enjoy them.
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline.
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