Mark Twain Quotes about Knowledge

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Mark Twain

Knowledge, People, World

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Mark Twain

Knowledge, Knows, Known

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Mark Twain

Real, Knowledge, Intuition

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

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

Mark Twain

Education, School, Knowledge

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

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain

Knowledge, Science, Rainbow

A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)