6 Mark Twain Quotes on Wisdom

Mark Twain quotes on wisdom

43. He is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man - and I am the other one. Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known, and I know the rest.

132. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

150. Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

194. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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198. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

213. It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.