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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.

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.

Mark Twain
Knowledge, People, World

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

Mark Twain
Knowledge, Knows, Known
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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

Mark Twain
Real, Knowledge, Intuition
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

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

Mark Twain
Education, School, Knowledge
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.425, Courier Corporation

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.

Mark Twain
Knowledge, Science, Rainbow
A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

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

Mark Twain
Knowledge, Otters, Rose
Mark Twain (2008). “Roughing It”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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