“[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.”
More from Ursula K. LeGuin on Truth
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
“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 of the imagination.”
“To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.”
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
George Orwell
6 quotes“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”