Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

perception man vanity impertinence

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

More quotations tagged with “opinions”

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

—Lawana Blackwell

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

—Katherine Mansfield

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

I have opinions of my own—strong opinions—but I don't always agree with them.

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