Mark Twain Quotes About Wisdom
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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Distance lends enchantment to the view.
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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