Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image