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 Wilde
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Oscar Wilde