Character Quote by Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…

— Oscar Wilde

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

— Oscar Wilde

“Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit”

— John Milton

“Little children, never be disobedient to those who are wiser than you for disobedience was the beginning of all the miseries and sorrows of…

— Yei Theodora Ozaki

“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...”

— John Geddes

“It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.”

— E. M. Cioran

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

— Paulo Coelho

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“History foretells that when you give an ordinary person the wisdom of what is right and the dignity to follow his or her heart,…

— Dew Platt

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley