Facts Quotes by Mark Twain

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”

— Mark Twain

“First get the facts, you can distort them later”

— Mark Twain

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

— Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

— Mark Twain

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

— Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

— Mark Twain

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

— Mark Twain

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

— Mark Twain

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle…

— Mark Twain

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not…

— Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever…

— Mark Twain

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't…

— Mark Twain

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is…

— Mark Twain

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that…

— Mark Twain

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

— Mark Twain

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,…

— Mark Twain

When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full…

— Mark Twain

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)…

— Mark Twain

We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer…

— Mark Twain

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely…

— Mark Twain

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can…

— Mark Twain

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest…

— Mark Twain

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it…

— Mark Twain

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the…

— Mark Twain

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect…

— Mark Twain

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a…

— Mark Twain

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money…

— Mark Twain

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the…

— Mark Twain

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is…

— Mark Twain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven…

— Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

— Mark Twain

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

— 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

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

— Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is…

— Mark Twain

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

— Mark Twain

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there…

— Mark Twain

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and…

— Mark Twain

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time,…

— Mark Twain