Mark Twain Quotes

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.