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Truth Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
- I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am…
- We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
- A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth…
- I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter…
- Truth is a matter of the imagination.
- Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
- One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...
- And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name,…
- A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
- The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture,…
- All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity.…
- All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse,…
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov