Oscar Wilde Quotes About Doubt

• A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Honesty, Men, Dust

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.81, Courier Corporation

• Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Doubt, Facts

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

• Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Clever, Intellectual

  Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”

• To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

• It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Doubt, Unbiased

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.284, OUP Oxford

• It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Struggle, Silly

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

• His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Simple, New Experiences

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

• 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 Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Perspective, Healthy

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, University of Chicago Press

• There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doubt, Genius, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Xist Publishing

• Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swimming, Doubt, Purpose

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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