Oscar Wilde Quotes About Ignorance

• By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Ignorance

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Ignorance, Squares

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

• Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Community, Public Opinion

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.118, Courier Corporation

• Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Differentiate

• There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Modern Journalism, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.393, University of Chicago Press

• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Ignorance, Three

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

• So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Self, Mad

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.103, GENERAL PRESS

• I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Natural

• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Ignorance, Modern Journalism

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1005, Wordsworth Editions

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