Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Source: Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries Archive.org https://archive.org 26 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala
“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
Source: Middlemarch
"Richard Rorty Interviewed by Gideon Lewis-Kraus." The Believer, June 2003.
“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.”
Source: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 6 (p. 65)
Source: The Complete Essays
“To learn in order to know is scandalous curiosity.”
Sunt qui scire volunt tantum, ut sciant, et turpis curiositas est.
Translation from Etienne Gilson, The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard
Then you have some people who wish to know for the sake of knowing, and that is scandalous curiosity. (Translation from J. Van Herwaarden, Between Saint James and Erasmus: Studies in Late-Medieval Religious Life)
Sermones in Cantica XXXVI, Migne PL 183, col. 968-969
“We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXII : Grand Master Architect, p. 190
