Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.