Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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The harder I work the more I live.

The harder I work the more I live.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never...

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never...

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The...

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The...

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a...

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the...

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the...

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his...

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his...