Mark Twain

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

The honest truth is that every day was new, every day was a challenge, every day was starting from a fresh place, and as time went on, over the course of about two years, things became better and better. But I don’t think that there was for me anything like, ‘Ah, this is taking too long’, because ‘long’ didn’t exist. So I see it as a blessing. I have to laugh. I mean there’s no other way to look at it.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

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

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

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

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Let them look up in the sky then…! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars…

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

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.

When in doubt tell the truth.