The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure to follow. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
