Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Experience Quotes, Teachers And Teaching Quotes

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he...

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he...

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

Syllables govern the world.

Syllables govern the world.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that...

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that...

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are...

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are...