A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Best Quotes
- My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
- Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
- I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
- When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
- The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
- In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
- Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.