Oscar Wilde Quotes about Ignorance

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

Ignorance, Stupidity, Differentiate

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Funny, Sarcastic, Ignorance

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Community, Public Opinion

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.118, Courier Corporation

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Oscar Wilde

Education, Ignorance, Squares

1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Natural

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Modern Journalism, Giving

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.393, University of Chicago Press

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Self, Mad

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.103, GENERAL PRESS

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Oscar Wilde

Writing, Ignorance, Three

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

Regret, Ignorance, Modern Journalism

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1005, Wordsworth Editions

Oscar Wilde Quotes about Ignorance

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