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Knowledge Quotes by Mark Twain
- I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
- Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
- All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
- You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'
- Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
- I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.…
- ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
- A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,…
- Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
- Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- 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…
- 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.
- Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.
- For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
- 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…
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius