Quotes about Perception
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
— Oscar Wilde
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
— Oscar Wilde
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
— Oscar Wilde
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
— Oscar Wilde
The great events of the world take place in the brain...
— Oscar Wilde
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
— Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
— Oscar Wilde
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— Oscar Wilde
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
— Oscar Wilde
Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.
— Oscar Wilde
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
— Oscar Wilde
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
— Oscar Wilde