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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Curiosity

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

Oscar Wilde
Race, Rejection, Curiosity
Oscar Wilde (1908). “Intentions”

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

Oscar Wilde
Simple, Curiosity, Asking
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.94, First Avenue Editions

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

Oscar Wilde
Curiosity, Knows
Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.171, OUP Oxford

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

Oscar Wilde
Mad, Curiosity, Looks
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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