Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind.
-- Wole Soyinka (1934-____) Nigerian playwright, novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1986...
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. -- Wole Soyinka
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. -- Wole Soyinka
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
You see things; and say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?
' -- George Bernard Shaw...
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
Theatre is Life Cinema is Art Television is Furniture.
Denken wollen ist eins; Talent zum Denken haben, ein Anderes.
[Wanting to think is one thing; a talent for thinking another.] -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1944)...

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