The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Quotations
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
