"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve."
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Source: Love Among the Artists. Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.
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