Mark Twain Quotes About Certainty

• Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Cocky, Ignorance

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Vapor, Reputation

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

• ... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Degrees, Alphabet

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.268, Univ of California Press

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Eye, Men

• Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

  Mark Twain

  Blow, Wind, House

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.103, Univ of California Press

• The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

  Mark Twain

  Certainty Of Death, Certainty In Life, Taxes

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