George Bernard Shaw Reason Quotations

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her

I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.

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.