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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."— Oscar Wilde
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Meaning of this quote
Wilde argues that society may resist imaginative challenges more strongly than familiar wrongdoing.
Key takeaway:
Ask why an unconventional idea meets resistance.
Origin of the quote
The Critic as Artist, collected in Intentions (1891).
Who actually said this?
VerifiedThe sentence is documented in Wilde’s dialogue about intellectual life and society’s response to the dreamer.
