Mark Twain Quotes

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

Not knowing the answer is better than consciously misleading.