Mark Twain Quotes About Learning

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

• God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

  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

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

• I've never let my school interfere with my education.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1946

• 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)

• Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  c.1897 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935).

• One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Communication, Learning

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.176, Courier Corporation

• 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.

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Education, Children

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

• 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)

• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

• If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Inspiration, Learning

• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Science, Supposing That

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

• Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Learning, Ballet

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays”

• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

• The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Home, Learning

• If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

  Mark Twain

  Leadership, Writing, Learning

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Cat, Men

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