Mark Twain Quote

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays (ed. 1929)

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers,...

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers,...

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers,...

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers,...