Mark Twain Quotes About Knowledge
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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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 as we gained by prying into that matter.
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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 as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.
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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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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.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
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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 cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
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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.
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