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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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
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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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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
school knowledge college
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama