Quote by Oscar Wilde

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were no

Summary

This quote highlights how social pressure or fear of judgment often influences our actions and decisions. It suggests that we may hold onto or maintain certain aspects of our lives, beliefs, or possessions not out of personal value or genuine need, but rather due to a concern about how society will perceive us. It raises awareness about the extent to which the fear of being judged can prevent us from making choices based on our own values and desires, encouraging introspection and critical evaluation of our actions.

Topics

Money

By Oscar Wilde

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.

Terry Pratchett

Fantasy

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are a

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Truth

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispell

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Claude A. Helvetius

Truth

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for char

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.

Relatives

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the peop

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

Danica McKellar

Amazing

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

Government

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that t

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Questions

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infi

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Maritain

Ideas

To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master sai

To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, You may live with me, but don't become my follower. Whom, then, shall I follow? No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Anthony de Mello

Truth

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

Un croquis vaut mieux qu

Un croquis vaut mieux qu

Art

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau