What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
This quote is just one of 191 total George Bernard Shaw quotes in our collection. George Bernard Shaw is known for saying 'What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.' as well as some of the following quotes.