Mark Twain Quotes About Ignorance
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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
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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.
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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.
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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.
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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.
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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
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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.
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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
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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.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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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.
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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.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?
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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
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