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Learning Quotes by Mark Twain
- Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
- 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…
- One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
- We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have…
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
- Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he…
- 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.
- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- I've never let my school interfere with my education.
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
- Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
- 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 occasion.
- Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the…
- When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
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