Oscar Wilde Quotes, Education Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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History is merely gossip

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

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