Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Mark Twain Quotes about Education

All Mark Twain Quotes 4th Of July Accomplishment Achievement Addiction Adventure Adversity Age Aging Alcohol Ambition Anxiety Appearance Appreciation Arguing Army Arrogance Art Atheism Atheist Attitude Authority Balance Beauty Beer Being Alone Belief Bible Bitterness Blame Bliss Bravery Business Censorship Challenges Change Character Charity Chastity Children Christianity Church Coffee College Comedy Communication Community Compassion Confidence Conflict Conscience Conservatism Constitution Cooking Country Courage Crime Criticism Dance Dancing Darkness Death Deception Defeat Democracy Design Desire Determination Devil Disappointment Diversity Divorce Doubt Drinking Duty Dying Earth Education quotes Effort Encouragement Energy Enthusiasm Envy Epic Ethics Evidence Evil Exercise Experience Failing Failure Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fighting Finding Yourself Fitness Flattery Focus Food Forgiveness Free Speech Freedom Friends Friendship Fun Funeral Funny Future Genius Getting Older Giving Giving Up God Gold Good Times Gossip Grace Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greed Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Happiness Happy Hard Times Hard Work Hate Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Hilarious Hills Hinduism History Holiday Home Honesty Honor House Human Nature Humanity Humility Hunger Hunting Hurt Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Independence Individuality Innovation Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Laughter Law Of Attraction Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Death Literature Loneliness Losing Loss Love Loyalty Luck Lying Madness Manners Marriage Math Memorial Day Memories Military Moderation Modesty Mom Monarchy Money Moon Morality Morning Motivation Motivational Mountain Music Nature New Year Office Opportunity Optimism Pain Parenting Passion Past Patriotism Peace Perception Perfection Perseverance Personality Philosophy Planning Pleasure Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Pride Privacy Profanity Progress Prophecy Prosperity Purpose Quality Rain Reading Reading Books Reality Recovery Regret Religion Reputation Respect Responsibility Revolution Risk Running Sad Sadness Sailing Salvation Sanity Sarcasm Satan School Science Self Esteem Seven Shame Silence Simplicity Sin Skins Sleep Smoking Society Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Sports Spring Strength Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Sunday Sunshine Swimming Talent Taxes Teaching Temperance Temptation Time Today Trade Tradition Tragedy Training Travel Trust Truth Twins Undertaker Vacation Values Violence Virtue Vision Vocation Voting Waiting War Water Wealth Whiskey Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worry Worship Writing Youth

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

Education, Schooling, Acquire

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

God, Sarcastic, Education

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

Education, Learning, Ballet

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education, Food, Inspiration

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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

Inspirational, Graduation, Education

Attributed in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1946

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

Funny, Life, Education

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

Inspirational, Success, Education

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Education, Men, Training

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Education, Teacher, Teaching

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.390, Courier Corporation

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Education, School, Greatness

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Inspirational, Education, Learning

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

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Education, Dog, School

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

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

Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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

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

Education, Wisdom, Horse

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 19

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Life, Education, Truth

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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.

Summer, Education, Children

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

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Leadership, Education, Trying

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Education, School, Jail

Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.362, University of Iowa Press

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

Education, School, Knowledge

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

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Education, Inspirational Life, Fighting

Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1923). “The Writings of Mark Twain”

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Education, Work, Advice

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.297, Courier Corporation

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Education, Wise, Stupid

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education, Running, College

A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Education, Running, Teaching

A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

Education, Art, Lying

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

You May Also Like: