# Quote — Jack Vance, The Languages of Pao

> When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Languages of Pao](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-languages-of-pao.md)
- Page: 149
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Languages_of_Pao_(1958)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-languages-of-pao/when-you-demand

## More from this book

> There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

p. 133 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-languages-of-pao/there-are-no-absolute.md)

> “Truth” is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

p. 112 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-languages-of-pao/truth-is-contained.md)

> Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud.

p. 149 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-languages-of-pao/your-thoughts-move.md)