Mark Twain Quotes About Truth
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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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.
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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.
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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.
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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
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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.
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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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.
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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.
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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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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.
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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
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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.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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