200+Famous Mark Twain Ignorance Quotes & Truth Quotes
Mark Twain Ignorance Quotes
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.-Mark Twain.
I would never advise a married man to buy a newspaper.-Mark Twain.
A person with no imagination has zero power.-Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.-Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.-Twain’s quote on words.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.-Mark Twain’s quote on lies
There is some good stuff, and some bad stuff, in a man, by the time he is twenty-five years old.-Mark Twain.
To be successful in anything you have always got to be lazy.-Twain’s quote on success
I caught one of them once and he made me put him back.-Mark Twain
Ignorance is the mother of indifference.-Mark Twain
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.-Mark Twain.
It’s not that we need new ideas, but rather that we are unable to execute the old ones.-Mark Twain.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.-Mark Twain’s quote on respectability
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -Mark Twain.
What’s right is what’s left.-Mark Twain’s quote on what’s right
Whoever the people hate, their leader they will hate, and despise.-Mark Twain.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination,-Mark Twain’s quote on religion
A little lie is like a little child, it makes for big trouble.-Mark Twain’s quote on truth
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine.–Mark Twain
No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is doomsday.-Mark Twain
When I was younger I could remember anything, Whether it happened or not.-Twain.
Laughter gives us distance. It helps us escape the limited truth of our circumstances.-Mark Twain.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead.-Mark Twain.
The only way to verify a negative is with another negative: therefore, we would be mutually assured that we were both absolutely right – Mark Twain’s quote on skepticism
A cat has nine lives; they run out one by one.(Mark Twain)
A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.-Mark Twain
The truth is like a lion, hard to kill, but when you do, nothing can replace it.-Mark Twain.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.-Mark Twain’s quote on lies
There is some good stuff, and some bad stuff, in a man by the time he is twenty-five years old. -Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.-Twain’s quote on success
Although I’m not a religious man, I do believe in an after life.–Mark Twain.
I cannot stand it, any longer: the pace is too slow and the rewards are too small.-Mark Twain’s quote in the face of inaction
I am tired–tired of my life, my books and my work. I am tired of looking at things and people in the same old way. I am tired of repeating in my mind what I have already said or written. -Mark Twain
I can live for two months on a good compliment. -Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.-Mark Twain
Didn’t he have a dog that didn’t bark?-Twain’s quote on dog
A truthful man is a dead man.-Mark Twain
When asked about the secret of success, Mark Twain replied that he made no secret of the fact that he was born lucky and added, “That is all they are fit for!”-Mark Twain
Don’t mind what other people say; they do not know your name or face.-Mark Twain
It’s not how much we do, but how much love we put into what we do. It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into what we give. -Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -Mark Twain
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not-Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth. -Twain’s quote
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -Mark Twain.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Mark Twain’s quote on success
That’s what I like about the Navy, they make landing on a carrier look easy. –Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. -Mark Twain
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. -Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – Mark Twain’s quote on laughter
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -Mark Twain
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. -Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. -Mark Twain
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Mark Twain’s quote on success
I’ve decided to stick with love, hate is so very permanent. -Mark Twain
Don’t accept your likes and dislikes as final. – Mark Twain’s quote on accepting the opinions of others
Anything worth doing well is worth doing badly once in a while. -Mark Twain’s quote on perfection and imperfection…
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -Mark Twain
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity . . . another man’s, not our own. -Mark Twain
It is better to be known as a lover of truth than an enemy of it.-Mark Twain’s quote on lying
If you have the knowledge, I pity you because you’re better off without it.-Twain’s quote on education
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.-Twain’s quote on success
Mark Twain Quotes About Truth
“The truth is that the truth is not always what we think it is.”
“The difference between the almost right word and the exactly right word? The difference between night and day.”
“I would know a great truth if I saw or heard it—the same as I know a great lie when I see or hear one.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction—to some people, but I am quite content with the truth.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”
“Doubt is a good servant and a bad master.”
“I never met a man I didn’t like as long as I didn’t know him.”
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.”
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“We must be enemies to the darkness or we will never see light.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
“You can’t depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.”
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.”
“I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow but I’ve got a good feeling about today.”
“Do not worry about people’s criticisms of your ideas; you have a perfect right to think and say just what you please, and they have no more right to hurt your feelings than I have.”
“The difference between the almost right word and the exactly right word? The difference between night and day.”
“Truth is so rare, it is really a luxury.”
“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.”
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”
“We must be enemies to the darkness or we will never see light.”
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. If you want to tell them the truth and make them laugh, tell them the truth.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“Truth is so rare that it is a real luxury for those who enjoy it.”
“The difference between the almost right word and the exactly right word? The difference between night and day.”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject; there are only uninterested listeners.”
“Doubt is a good servant, and a bad master.”
Mark Twain Quotes About Life
“It is a truism that almost nothing ever goes according to plan.”
“It’s no use talking, I don’t argue well.”
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“Always do right – this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.”
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
“There are three kinds of men. There are those who see, and those who see when they are shown. There are those who see without being shown, and there are those who don’t see.”
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
“There are two things in this world that don’t last long: regrets and ignorance.”
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, he Was just the contrary.”
“I never give anybody a chance to second-guess me.”
“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what we do here.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, understand it. You may not be able to change it, but at least you’ll know why it is as it is.”
“The rules of life are simple. Understand them and live with dignity and honor.”
“Children should be seen and not heard. They are far more likely to be ignored than anything else. That is why they are so quiet.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t.”
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
“There are no words to express the human hearing and trying to listen while there’s a scream around it, no words to express how deeply touched you are by what happened, even if you didn’t know them at all. I suppose they were touched to death.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, it is impossible to believe that anything else is possible. I no longer pray for things, I ask them; and even then I know that God knows what is best.”
“It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it.”
“Like enough, like different: That’s the secret.”
