Quotes & Sayings About Learning Mark Twain

What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? — Mark Twain

School gets in the way of my learning. — Mark Twain

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. — Mark Twain

Never let your education interfere with your learning. — Mark Twain

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.
Mark Twain — Tony-Paul De Vissage

He relished learning from the voice of a teacher and from books. Each day of merely learning something was a deep adventure to him. Sometimes he laughed and told himself that he was unnatural, for American boys are supposed to hate school. They followed a pattern of Redblooded Masculinity, set up by the traditions of hookey and Mark Twain. But he had no resistance whatever to his studies. He took them supine and with gusto, with the receptively of a girl whose desires have been aroused by loving blandishment. — John Horne Burns

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. — Mark Twain

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. — Mark Twain

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card. — Mark Twain

Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die. — Mark Twain

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. — Mark Twain

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly. — Mark Twain

Supposing is good, but finding out is better. — Mark Twain

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came. — Mark Twain

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn — Mark Twain

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. — Mark Twain