Mark Twain Quotes on Wisdom
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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.
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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
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Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.