Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
George Bernard Shaw
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
Artist
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Music Critic
Photographer
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Bernard Shaw
G.B. Shaw
Means
Myriad
Science
Unit
Cannot
Units
Mean
Mathematician
Count
Ten
Bushmen
Fingers
Eleventh
Single
Incalculable
More quotes by George Bernard Shaw
The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
George Bernard Shaw
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
George Bernard Shaw
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
George Bernard Shaw
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
George Bernard Shaw
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
George Bernard Shaw
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
George Bernard Shaw
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
George Bernard Shaw
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
George Bernard Shaw
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
George Bernard Shaw
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
George Bernard Shaw
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw
