"You see, he knew his own laws..." - Quote by Mark Twain
You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.
More by Mark Twain
“Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.”
“Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.”
“The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.”
More on Knowledge
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
“I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it”
“No use going to class unless you go to the library.”
More on Understanding
“What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.”
“The whole end of speech is to be understood.”
“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”