Wisdom Quote by Zan Marie Steadham

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. MARK TWAIN Did”

— Robert Morris

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

— Robert Littell

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and…

— Mark Twain

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

— Mark Twain

“I discovered that the difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck…

— Dan Simmons

“This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain.”

— Randall Munroe

“To compare Mark Twain’s early verse to his late is a bit like comparing a clown to a tragedian. In their unpretentious areas, many…

— Arthur L. Scott

“The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light…

— Václav Havel

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

— John Kennedy Toole

“My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wisdom is better than folly, the way the light is better than the darkness.”

— J.S. Drangsholt

“Intelligence is short, virtue is narrow, understanding is wide, and wisdom is tall.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo