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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say
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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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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way
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One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect
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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Experience comes from bad judgment.
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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.