Quote of Oscar Wilde - I am so clever that sometimes...
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
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Note
The Remarkable Rocket
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: to understand
Quotes for: word
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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