Oscar Wilde on intelligence
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Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde There is no sin except stupidity.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Lily TomlinLily Tomlin In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
Max PlanckMax Planck All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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