Only the shallow know themselves.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Self Knowledge Quotes

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts...

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the...

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the...

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is...

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is...

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap...

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap...

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this...

It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this...

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of...

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of...