Quotes about Wisdom
Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.
— Oscar Wilde
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
— Oscar Wilde
I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.
— Oscar Wilde
Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
— Oscar Wilde
Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.
— Oscar Wilde
The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.
— Oscar Wilde
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
— Oscar Wilde
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
— Oscar Wilde
And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
— Oscar Wilde
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand
— Oscar Wilde