“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
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Wisdom Quotes
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286 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world.”
Oscar Wilde · De Profundis, 1905
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“To define is to limit.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The unlived life is always better because it never has to survive contact with living.”
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“Some things are worth more after they've been broken. The repair is the evidence that they were worth saving.”
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Socrates · Attributed in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching
“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:34 · The Bible, English Standard Version
“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”
Thich Nhat Hanh · The Miracle of Mindfulness, 1975
“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 · The Bible, King James Version
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid · Ars Amatoria, Book II
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Letter to his daughter, 1865
