Mark Twain Quotes

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

I believe in things that have proof.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Evidence exhausts the truth.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

The truth does not need to be defended.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.