Mark Twain Quotes

“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.”

― Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

topic:knowledge

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:freedom speech politics

“It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed...”

― Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

topic:freedom stars universe

“They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:freedom law responsibility

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

topic:fear courage

“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:heart youth

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

topic:heart reason

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will...”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:wisdom experience

“Faith is believing what you know ain't so.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:reality faith

“Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:religion listening

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