Quote of George Bernard Shaw - The reasonable man adapts himself to...
Biography - George Bernard Shaw:
Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
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.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about the world:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Quotes for: progress
The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.
Don’t wait for Plato’s Republic! Rather, be content if one tiny thing makes some progress, and reflect on the fact that what results from this tiny thing is no tiny thing at all!
George Bernard Shaw also said...
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