Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

If you shut up the truth and bury it in the ground, it will grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulty, but is never finally suppressed.

I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... Demonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.