Mark Twain Quotes About Ignorance

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  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

• All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Confidence, Congratulations

• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Ignorance, Politics

• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.1053, Penguin

• 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.

• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

• The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

• If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, World, Bliss

• Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Knowing, Not Knowing

• The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Too Much, Trouble

• His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Ignorance, Intelligence

• Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Religion, Atheism

• Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Clean Desk, Needs

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Ignorance, Brave

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ignorant

• ...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Twins

• We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Ignorant Person

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

• ...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Should

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

• Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Adversity, Ignorance

• The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Ignorance, Clothes

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

• If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Honor, Study

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2483, GENERAL PRESS

• Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Self, Perception

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.156, Jazzybee Verlag

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