Rational people adapt themselves to society, while irrational people always insist on letting society adapt to themselves, so all progress must rely on these irrational people
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.
There are two tragedies in life: one is despair; the other is complacency. Another translation is:
There are two greatest tragedies in life, one is not getting what you hoped for, and the other is finally getting what you hoped for.
There
are
two
tragedies
in
life.
One
is
not
to
get
your
heart's
desire.
The
other
is
to
get
it.
George
Bernard
Shaw,
"Man
and
Superman"
(1903),
act
4