Truth Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What is more arrogant than honesty?

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“Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

“To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new…

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Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

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I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

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“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

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

Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

“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

We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there…

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“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

“Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I talk about the…

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“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all.…

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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

“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

“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with…

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“Everyone is important,” Sue said “I learned that this summer.” Was that the truth that the croaking voice had gasped at torture’s…

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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

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of…

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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

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

“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