Quote by Oscar Wilde

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a t

Summary

This quote suggests that the English have a tendency to diminish the significance of truths by reducing them to mere facts. By doing so, the intellectual and profound essence of these truths is lost. It implies that the English prioritize empirical evidence and concrete data, disregarding the abstract and conceptual aspects that give truths their intellectual value. This quote may serve as a critique of a culture or mindset that prioritizes objectivity at the expense of deeper understanding and insight.

Topics

Truth

By Oscar Wilde

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample bas

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Action(s)

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything externa

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Happiness

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each k

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Rupert Sheldrake

Nature

'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was

'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.

Food

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Risk

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Ezra Taft Benson

Integrity

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the peop

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Life People Faith Victory

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely deli

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

Amazing

Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody i

Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, perva

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Charles Dickens

Hope

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical p

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Politics

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Nationalism Nation Nationality