Mark Twain Quotes About Learning
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
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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 got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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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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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 worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
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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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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
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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.
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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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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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