I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
- Topic: Self
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
