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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2009 02:22:15AM 3 points [-]

"A wizard may have subtle ways of telling the truth, and may keep the truth to himself, but if he says a thing the thing is as he says. For that is his mastery." -- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Leguin

Comment author: freyley 08 April 2009 01:09:31AM 6 points [-]

And in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, no one trusts the Aes Sedai, because after they vow to always tell the truth, they learn how to twist their words to get what they want anyway.

Someone who would tell the truth in a way that they knew would not convey the truth would not hold my trust.