We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the sa... - Mark Twain
"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."
More quotes by Mark Twain
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it."