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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
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"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
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"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
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"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
520 people liked it

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: life, surrealistic
391 people liked it

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, knowledge
434 people liked it

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: love
247 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
242 people liked it

"'I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.'

'A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.'"
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks
150 people liked it

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: fiction
106 people liked it

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: agree
126 people liked it

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
— Oscar Wilde

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"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

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"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

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"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after."
— Oscar Wilde

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"Everything popular is wrong."
— Oscar Wilde

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures"
— Oscar Wilde

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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is visible, not invisible."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: againt, interpretation-
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"A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle."
— Oscar Wilde

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"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: sinister
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"A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

tags: art, nature
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"Time is a waste of money."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

tags: money, time
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"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: wickedness
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"One should always be a little improbable."
— Oscar Wilde

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"It is only the gods who taste of death. Apollo has passed away, but Hyacinth, whom men say he slew, lives on. Nero and Narcissus are always with us."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

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"To be really mediaeval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

7 people liked it

"A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

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"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

3 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,624 people liked it

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

tags: happiness
210 people liked it

"Hope is a waking dream."
— Aristotle

tags: dreams, hope
101 people liked it

"Wit is educated insolence."
— Aristotle

43 people liked it

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
— Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom
49 people liked it

"I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self."
— Aristotle

tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery
22 people liked it

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
— Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational
49 people liked it

"All men by nature desire to know."
— Aristotle

11 people liked it

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
— Aristotle

17 people liked it

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
— Aristotle

tags: learning
11 people liked it

"The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond."
— Aristotle

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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. "
— Aristotle Onassis

tags: inspirational
4 people liked it

"Always prefer the probable impossible to the improbable possible."
— Aristotle

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"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
— Aristotle Onassis

3 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
931 people liked it

"Know thyself."
— Socrates

51 people liked it

"To find yourself, think for yourself."
— Socrates

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"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
— Socrates

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"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual"
— Socrates

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