Oscar Wilde Quotes

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.

Oscar Wilde

• Refuge
• Conformity
• Unimaginitive

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Future
  • Schedule

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Creation

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Directing

• Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Power
  • Chains
  • Conformity

• Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Society
  • Ever
  • Conformity

• I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Political

• Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Work
  • Freedom

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make up songs.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • People
  • Country
  • Gang

• I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • People

• I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Together
  • Community

• Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Gold

• Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Luck
  • Refuge
  • Laziness

• I think it was a major mistake to revisit Title II.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Mistake

• True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Real
  • True
  • Faith

• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • America
  • Hunting

• The era of the traditional software 'load, update and upgrade' business and technology model is over, ... It is time for 'The Business Web.' ... Just as mainframe companies struggled for relevance in the client-server era, Microsoft finds itself in a worse position today, facing not just the obsolescence of a technology model, but a business model as well.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Time
  • Business
  • Today

• I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Company
  • Artists
  • Level

• For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Believe
  • Evil

• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Refuge
  • Conformity
  • Unimaginitive