Oscar Wilde Quotes

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

There is more truth in honest doubt, Believe me, than in all the creeds.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

It is faith that moves mountains, because it gives the illusion that mountains move …. Illusion is perhaps the only reality in life.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

We open the door for God to work by placing faith in His Word, and we open the door for Satan to work by placing faith in his word. He places thought in our minds that are not true, but can become true for us if they are believed.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.