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Mark Twain Quotes about Truth

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Witty, Truth, Deep Thought

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Motivational, Cute, Truth

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Truth, Inspirational Life, Fiction

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Truth, Science, Fiction

Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Truth, Honesty, Memories

Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

When in doubt tell the truth.

Life, Truth, Honesty

Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Inspirational, Life, Truth

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Truth, Lying, Race

Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Motivational, Truth, Lying

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Funny, Truth, Real

Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.339, Univ of California Press

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Life, Inspiring, Truth

Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Truth, Inspiration, Prevailing

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Funny, Music, Truth

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Truth, Honesty, Politics

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Truth, Believe, Mind

Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.201, Penguin

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Peace, Truth, Lying

Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.2818, e-artnow

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Truth, Doubt, Use

Mark Twain (2008). “Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.393, ReadHowYouWant.com

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Truth, Literature, Valuable

Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Truth, Care, Sometimes

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.435, Univ of California Press

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Truth, Lying, Believe

Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author’s Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…”, p.2794, e-artnow

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Truth, Self, People

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.271, Courier Corporation

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Life, Education, Truth

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Truth, Fiction, Stranger

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

Funny, Truth, World

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.42, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Fake People, Truth, Inspirational Life

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