Mark Twain Ignorance Quotations

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.

If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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.

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.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were—for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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.

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.

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?