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All generalizations are false, including this one.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Mark Twain

Funny, Truth, Inspirational Life

Attributed in "A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense" by Mark Twain, Seven Stories Press, (p. 61), January 4, 2011.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Mark Twain

Truth, Truth Is, Homely

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

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

Mark Twain

Truth, Heard, Has Beens

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Mark Twain

Truth, Believe, Mean

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.470, 谷月社

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Mark Twain

Truth, Honesty, Trump

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Mark Twain

Truth, Way, Strict

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5702, Delphi Classics

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Mark Twain

Funny, Respect, Truth

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

Mark Twain

Truth, Honesty, Men

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Mark Twain

Truth, Lying, Men

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2132, GENERAL PRESS

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Mark Twain

Truth, Alive, Truth Is

Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

Mark Twain

Mother, Truth, Lying

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Mark Twain

Truth, Use, Truth Is

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Mark Twain

Truth, Long, Mind

Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins