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Confer Quotes by Mark Twain
- All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
- To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame…
- 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…
- To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame…
More Confer Quotes
- You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?… — Lydia M. Child
- The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides
- If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means… — Sarah Moore Grimke
- Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman
- The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to… — Bertrand Russell
- When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews… — Mencius
- To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that… — C.S. Lewis