Quote by Oscar Wilde

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, o

Summary

This quote highlights the idea that society often pushes individuals to conform to specific roles and careers. It suggests that if someone actively pursues a certain path, they will become what they desire, but this could be seen as a punishment. On the other hand, the quote argues that living an uncertain and exploratory life, embracing a sense of artistic freedom and curiosity, can lead to a rewarding experience of self-discovery and constant growth. It emphasizes the rewards of embracing uncertainty and not being confined by societal expectations.

Topics

Life Goals Artistic

By Oscar Wilde

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pu

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Education Ambition Teachersandteaching T Shirt Educators

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, an

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Death

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advan

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Learning

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Morals

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience,

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Winning Winners

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.

Enlightenment

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply in

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great an

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry

Most people associate command and control leadership with th

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse someth

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Robert Cecil DayLewis

Creativity

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Friendship

One day as I came home early from work I saw a guy jogging n

One day as I came home early from work I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, Hey buddy . . . why are you doing that? He said, Because you came home early.

Rodney Dangerfield

Humor Funny