Quotes

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.”

Your feelings, Shallan—however powerful—are your own. Not mine. And what I feel is that spending my life trying to earn the favor of an unseen, unknown, and unknowable being who watches me from the sky is an exercise in sheer futility.”

People were so easily fooled. All you had to do was give them a reason to believe something and they would almost always do so.

Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.

Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.

Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.

It’s idiocy to try to prove a negative. Let the Vorin believe as they wish—the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.”

We do not find virtue in a man by the quality of his circumstances, but the quality of his actions.

What has been need not always be.

I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight, shirtless under the sun, wearing only a loincloth. He tottered down a busy thoroughfare. People made way for him...

“I can’t decide if it’s dishonest or not.” “It’s not dishonest; it’s business.”

Truth is a gateway drug to science.

Expect honor from those you meet, and give them the chance to live up to it.

“I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god’s d...

Just because a task is daunting doesn’t mean you cant deal with it.