Mark Twain Quotes About Knowledge

• If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, People, World

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Education

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Cute, Truth

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Learning

  Life on the Mississippi ch. 6 (1883)

• All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

  Mark Twain

  Education, School, Knowledge

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.425, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Knows, Known

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

• For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Knowledge, Intuition

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

• Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Otters, Rose

  Mark Twain (2008). “Roughing It”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Educational, School

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Science, Rainbow

  A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

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