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Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain quotes about learning

American Author, Writer November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. Mark Twain
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by-and-by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him; because I don't take no stock in dead people. Mark Twain
So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that. Mark Twain
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain
I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we..."
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. Mark Twain
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I..."
Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can..."
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot..."
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a..."
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he..."
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. Mark Twain

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