“Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies... — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But I think we will have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I talk about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Be still!” the Head Isle-Man said roughly, for he knew, as did most of them, that a wizard may have subtle ways… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Everyone is important,” Sue said “I learned that this summer.” Was that the truth that the croaking voice had gasped at torture’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
