Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
Trying to discover the faults of other people amounts to making no effort to deal with those in oneself.
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
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