Oscar Wilde Quotations Intellect and Reason

I have nothing to declare except my genius

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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