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In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It doesn't matter who my father was.
It matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Before you can forgive others,
you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.
Before you can have gratitude for your life,
you must believe that your life has value.
Before your choices have value,
you must feel that you yourself have value.
Before you can dream a great dream for your future,
you have to believe that your future matters.
Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,
before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,
"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"
you must believe that your life matters.
Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.
And, before you can feel unity with,
and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,
you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's YOUR time - it's YOUR life -
YOU get to choose how you use it. T
here is no way that your life is "supposed" to be.
Your parents had their vision for your life.
Your boss, your spouse, your church, your friends,
and even the family next door have their ideas
of how you should live your life.
What about YOUR vision for your life?
What do YOU want?
YES, it matters what you want.
YES you can have what you want.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
- Rumi
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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