Mark Twain Quotes

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

The person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

You can't really learn, not in car racing. You have to make your own mistakes.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

Everything that we know in the business we've had to learn from mistakes. No one sat us down and taught us or even said, 'Go pick up this book and learn for yourself.' We trusted people.

I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

Just build things and find out if they work.

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.