Mark Twain Quotes About Intelligence

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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
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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

• One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Wisdom, Horse

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 19

• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7

• It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Change, Intelligence

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Ignorance, Intelligence

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