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Mark Twain Quotes about Ignorance

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

Ignorance, World, Bliss

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Humor, Ignorance, Politics

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Inspiration, Cocky, Ignorance

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Ignorance, Honor, Study

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2483, GENERAL PRESS

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Ignorance, Too Much, Trouble

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Ignorance, Knowing, Not Knowing

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Honesty, Ignorance, Stupidity

Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Ignorance, Clean Desk, Needs

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

Inspirational Life, Adversity, Ignorance

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

Ignorance, Religion, Atheism

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

Sarcastic, Ignorance, Intelligence

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Ignorance, Thinking, Ignorant

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

Ignorance, Self, Perception

Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.156, Jazzybee Verlag

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Ignorance, Men, Hands

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Ignorance, Ignorant, Twins

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

Ignorance, Ignorant, Ignorant Person

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Ignorance, Ignorant, Should

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Time, Ignorance, Clothes

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Courage, Ignorance, Brave

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

Hate, Ignorance, People

Mark Twain (2013). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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