“As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. — 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
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image
