Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.