Thinking Quotes by Mark Twain

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

— Mark Twain

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

— Mark Twain

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

— Mark Twain

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

— Mark Twain

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

— Mark Twain

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

— Mark Twain

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

— Mark Twain

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

— Mark Twain

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks…

— Mark Twain

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read…

— Mark Twain

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the…

— Mark Twain

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he…

— Mark Twain

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking…

— Mark Twain

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any…

— Mark Twain

“There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.”

— Mark Twain

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance…

— Mark Twain

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so…

— Mark Twain

“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has…

— Mark Twain

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because…

— Mark Twain

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world…

— Mark Twain

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they…

— Mark Twain

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.…

— Mark Twain

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to…

— Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that…

— Mark Twain

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to…

— Mark Twain

That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the…

— Mark Twain

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint…

— Mark Twain

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I…

— Mark Twain

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not…

— Mark Twain

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just…

— Mark Twain

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation…

— Mark Twain

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

— Mark Twain

It were not best that we should all think alike.

— Mark Twain

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

— Mark Twain

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

— Mark Twain

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

— Mark Twain

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

— Mark Twain

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

— Mark Twain

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

— Mark Twain