Thinking Quotes by 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

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

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

— Mark Twain

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they…

— Mark Twain

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas…

— Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

— Mark Twain

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

— 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

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the…

— 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

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the…

— Mark Twain

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part…

— Mark Twain

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only…

— Mark Twain

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them 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

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you…

— Mark Twain

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking…

— 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

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

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

— Mark Twain

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

— Mark Twain

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

— Mark Twain

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

— Mark Twain