Mark Twain Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Knowing Quotes

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

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is no feeling of brotherhood among these people. Indeed, they always resent it when I call them brother. To show how far their ungenerosity can carry them, I will state that I offered to let Prof. H--y publish my great theory as his own discovery; I even begged him to do it; I even proposed to print it myself as his theory. Instead of thanking me, he said that if I tried to fasten that theory on him he would sue me for slander.

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

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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

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When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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