Quote of Oscar Wilde - It is a much cleverer thing...
Biography - Oscar Wilde:
Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about intelligence:
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Quotes for: absurd
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Oscar Wilde also said...
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