“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw · Wisdom quote

Playwright · 1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic; author of Pygmalion; Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.

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