Mark Twain Quotes About Wisdom

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

• The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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.

• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
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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

• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

• A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Education

• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• 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)

• Distance lends enchantment to the view.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Wisdom, Distance

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press

• Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Garden, Eden

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.76, Chartwell

• 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

• What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Book, Beer

  Notebook, 2 July 1867

• In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• 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

• The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2992, Delphi Classics

• Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Men, Names

• A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Men, Moon

• It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Mind, Trying

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.177, Univ of California Press

• If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Wisdom, True Wisdom

• The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, May, Unexamined Life

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