Quote: George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1925),
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (1938),
Playwright, Critic, Political Activist, Socialist

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

1 thought on “Quote: George Bernard Shaw

  1. Doesn’t that imply that the most reasonable man should kill himself, thereby becoming part of `the world’, since the limit of adaptation is assimilation? This definition of `reasonable’ is flawed.

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