Robin McKinley Quotes

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There are many levels of truth.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.