Oscar Wilde Quotes
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Topics
Misunderstanding
Human Error
Human Fallibility
Misinterpretation
Mistakes, Errors, Misjudgments
Names
Personal Growth
Self-Deception
Self-Awareness
Life Experience
Mistake
Empathy Deficit
Ethical Ambiguity
Learning From Mistakes
Miscommunication
Moral Ambiguity
Perspective Taking
Subjective Experience
empathic understanding
ethical lessons
False wisdom
Citations
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ward, Lock and Co., 1891.
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.