Truth Quote by H.L. Mencken — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”

“Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.”

“Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.”

“This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America”

“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

“Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist.”