14 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Knowledge

Oscar Wilde quotes on knowledge

9. The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsu spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

66. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

72. 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.

73. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

76. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

111. My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

120. Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

121. The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

146. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

157. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

180. I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

218. It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

222. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

252. I'm not young enough to know everything.