Mark Twain Quotes About Students

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Wise

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

• College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

  Mark Twain

  College, Brain, Lectures

• It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Change, Intelligence

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

• I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Two, Adjectives

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

• 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

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