The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard ShawThe truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
George Bernard ShawYour wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!
George Bernard ShawThe mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
George Bernard Shaw