The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Intelligence Quotes

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far...

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live...

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what...

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what...

There is no sin except stupidity.

There is no sin except stupidity.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty

She is a peacock in everything but beauty

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over...

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner...

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner...

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would...

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and...

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry...

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry...