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
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.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
