Wisdom Quote by Oscar Wilde — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

“What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.'”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

“A meaningful life is built from the questions we refuse to stop asking.”

“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.”

“There’s a kind of strength in gentleness that machines will never understand.”

“Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”