
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright and critic; author of Pygmalion; Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'George Bernard Shaw

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment.George Bernard Shaw
My reputation grows with every failure.George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw