George Bernard Shaw

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925

Award: "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty."

“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.”

Quotations

Humor

When the news of the prize was announced, thousands of people all over Europe “wrote to me for loans, mostly for the entire sum,” Shaw told [Augustin] Hamon. “When the further news came that I had refused it another million or so wrote to say that if I was rich enough to throw away money like that, I could afford to adopt their children, or pay off the mortgages on their houses…or let them have £XXXX to be repaid punctually next May, or to publish a priceless book explaining the mystery of the universe. It says a good deal for female virtue that only two women proposed that I should take them on as mistresses.” To grapple with the emergency, he began practicing a complicated facial expression which combined universal benevolence with a savage determination to rescue no one from financial ruin.” -Steve King, English Department, Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Quotations

1. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
2. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
3. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
4. Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
5. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
6. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. 

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