Quotes

Turn a liability into an advantage whenever you can.

The sum of my experiences has pointed at this moment. This decision.

It was simply the way of human beings, subtly changing the past in their minds to match their current beliefs.

It is not a lesson I claim to be able to teach. Experience herself is the great teacher, and you must seek her directly.

Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.

“I’ll do what is right, regardless of my feelings,

If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.”

You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.

“I don’t have traditions,” Sah said. “Or society. But still, my ‘freedom’ is that of a leaf. Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I’m in charge of my destiny.”

The first rule of war. Know your enemy.

“Sir. You know I don’t want this burden.” “If you’d wanted a life without burdens, you shouldn’t have said the oaths,” Dalinar said. “We don’t get to choose things like this,

“Fighting makes you strong, but also callous. I worry I have learned too much of the latter and not enough of the former.

he defied death. It could not have him, for while life was painful, life was also sweet.

Wages were based on a man’s rank, and you couldn’t just make slaves of men for no reason.

Their hike continued, and he tried to turn his attention to his surroundings instead of his thoughts.