"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house."
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Source: Who I Am, and What I Think. Interview in Frank Harris's periodical The Candid Friend (May 1901), later quoted in George Bernard Shaw Sixteen Self Sketches (p. 53), 1949, and in Desmond King-Hele, Shelley: His Thought and Work (p. 42), 1984.
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