Quotes about Truth
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.
- Mark Twain
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
- Mark Twain
You can't pray a lie.
- Mark Twain
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
- Mark Twain
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
- Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- Mark Twain
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
- Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one.
- Mark Twain
A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.
- Mark Twain
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
- Mark Twain
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.
- Barack Obama