“Silence is a sentence that says everything.”
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“In the middle of noise, the stillness inside you is the only thing that actually belongs to you.”
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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde · The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“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
