Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

I'm not very wise to many things.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

Let your tongue become accustomed to the words “I do not know”.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

Life shows us all the time, really and truly, that you're not in control of most things, but at the same time, the things that you are able to control, you should definitely hold on to that. But it's okay that you can't control every aspect of your life.

I've made mistakes, usually when I felt backed against a wall or faced enormous pressure. I'm human and flawed.