On Nov. 2, 2022, we received an email from a reader who attached a quote meme and asked if it's true that author Mark Twain once said, "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to ...

“The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie,” the quote, attributed to Mark Twain, reads. The quote doesn’t show up in a search of Google Books and the newspaper ...

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom ... "Familiarity breeds contempt—and children." "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." "Do not put off until tomorrow ...

A post (here) with more than 40,000 likes at the time of publishing includes the quote which reads, “The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie. – Mark Twain.” ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

It might be asking too much to bring back Mark Twain from the ... and misrepresentation is that truth has no place in Washington.” That was true when Twain first wrote it, somewhere before ...

Before I get into why, I should give the usual disclaimer about the attribution of this quote. Like many famous sayings, it’s unclear if Mark Twain actually originated it or just borrowed the ...

One person who knows Mark Twain and his quotes well is actor Hal Holbrook ... me is he’s the only one I know who really tells the truth about who we are, how we behave and all the disruptions ...