Truth Quote by Mark Twain — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.”

“The only truth is music.”

“You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”

“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later. For all men live by truth and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”