Mark Twain Knowledge Quotations

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.