Mark Twain

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities – they can do both.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I just am not good at math.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.

[On his donation of $100 million to UCLA in 2012 adding to the $200 million he donated in 2002] The cost of a world-class medical education should not deter our future innovators, doctors and scientists from the path they hope to pursue. We need the students at this world-class institution to be driven by determination and the desire to do their best work and not by the fear of crushing debt. I hope in doing this that others will be inspired to do the same.

That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.