Mark Twain Quotes

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

No one can keep a mask on long.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

Some kneel and lie to God.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.