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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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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