George Bernard Shaw -- Irish dramatist, literary critic, socialist spokesman, 20th century theater figure, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1925), freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate of equality of income.
Shaw was always outspoken and frequently misinterpreted by the more conservative elements of society. Yet he managed to offer some keen insights on the human community and condition. Here are a few:
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
What do you think? Has he captured some truth?
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