Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [681-700] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.~ Harry S. Truman If you cannot convince them, confuse them.~ Harry S. Truman I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves.~ Harriet Tubman Carlye said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.~ Mark Twain If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.~ Mark Twain It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.~ Mark Twain The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.~ Mark Twain Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.~ Mark Twain ... if it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary.~ Mark Twain Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.~ Mark Twain I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.~ Mark Twain God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.~ Mark Twain Often, the surest way to convey information is to tell the strict truth.~ Mark Twain Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.~ Mark Twain I am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition... (more)~ Mark Twain Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.~ Mark Twain There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.~ Mark Twain It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.~ Mark Twain Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.~ Mark Twain Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print