Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other?

Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts—but those thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds. As Tress set the final flare in the row, Huck trailed

The world has always been like this, even if I didn't know it.

information is worthless unless we use it to make judgments.

Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft," Kaladin said. "It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them." Teft

Propriety is nonsense?" "Too much in high society is built around the idea of making certain you don't need to trust anyone," Waxillium said. "Contracts, detailed operating reports, not being seen alone with an eligible member of the opposite gender. If you remove the foundation of trust from a relationship, then what is the point of that relationship?

People today Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. They act as their surroundings prepare them to act.

People suffered when the truth became a commodity to be speculated upon.

But he was fatigued. Worn out like an old banner allowed to flap in the wind through too many rainstorms.

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 decree.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.

People got so mad when she lost spheres. They were strange about money. Far too concerned with something that you couldn't eat—though Lift figured that was probably the point of using spheres instead of something rational, like bags of food. If you actually traded food, everyone would eat up all their money and then where would society be?

I'll have more than that." He tapped the windowsill. "I'm going to refound the Knights Radiant.

La fe… Recordó una voz del pasado. Su propia voz, hablándole a Vin aquel terrible día tras la muerte de Kelsier. La fe no es solo para los bellos momentos y los días felices. ¿Qué es creer, qué es la fe si no persistes en ella después del fracaso?

What was wrong with that young man who answered the door?" Wyndle asked. "Dunno," Lift said. "Some people are just born like that.

Storms. Was that how close they'd come? "Cutting it a little tight, don't you think, son?" "A surgeon must be timely and precise." "This is timely?" Lirin said. "Well, you do hate it when people waste time," Kaladin said, grinning.

You don't get to choose to be free, Venli. Just which master to follow.

And don't you give me that innocent look. These are the Forests. Everybody here has done something, now and then, that you don't want others to know about....

It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.

Intentarán definirte por medio de algo que no eres -dijo Jasnah-. No lo permitas. Yo puedo ser erudita, mujer, historiadora, Radiante. La gente seguirá intentando clasificarme por lo que me vuelve ajena a ellos. La ironía es que pretenden que lo que no soy, o aquello en lo que no creo, se mi principal seña de identidad. Siempre lo he rechazado, y voy a seguir haciéndolo.

I'm not a hallucination," J.C. snapped. "I have state-of-the-art stealthing equipment.

One did not act so cheekily nonchalant by accident;

Worry has weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource. One might say worries are the only things you can make heavier simply by thinking about them.

The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar," Wit said. "And the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first—but also exploit the first—while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.