Robert Jordan
- Winter's Heart
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
Robert Jordan
- The Eye of the World
Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.
Frédéric Bastiat
- The Law
for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing - the solution of the social problem is in liberty.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
- Wit's insult
You are less a human being and more a lump of dung with aspirations. If someone took a stick and beat you repeatedly, it could only serve to improve your features. Your face defies description but only because it nauseated all the poets. You are what parents use to frighten children into obedience. I'd tell you to put a sack over your head but think of the poor sack! Theologians use you as proof that God exists because such hideousness can only be intentional.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
- Dalinar
A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
- The question
The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.
