Wisdom Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.”

“[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.”

“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”

“She'll die.'”

“He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.'”

“Who ignores not weak foe, with intellect waits for his opportunity,”

“When you are fed up looking for happiness or motivation outside; look inside.”

“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”

“To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.”

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”