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My way of joking is to tell the truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Boxing, Joking Around
1904 Peter Keegan to Nora Reilly. John Bull's Other Island, act 2.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Children, Truth

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw
Religious, Atheist, Truth
Annajanska (1919)

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Political, Politics

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Light, Break Through
George Bernard Shaw (2011). “The Doctor's Dilemma”, p.137, The Floating Press

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

George Bernard Shaw
Beauty, Truth, Math

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Lying, I Can

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Knowledge, Media

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Honesty, Honor
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2406, e-artnow

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