# Brandon Sanderson

- Quotes: 251
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson

## Books

- [Edgedancer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/edgedancer.md) — 6 quotes
- [Elantris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/elantris.md) — 9 quotes
- [Mistborn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/mistborn.md) — 5 quotes
- [Oathbringer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer.md) — 62 quotes
- [Rhythm of War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/rhythm-of-war.md) — 49 quotes
- [The Way of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings.md) — 70 quotes
- [Warbreaker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/warbreaker.md) — 9 quotes
- [Words of Radiance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance.md) — 41 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> I name you idiot for playing with powers you only presume to understand.

p. 999

> “Must be nice,” Adolin said, patting the horse, “to not have to worry about things like politics or relationships.”
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> The horse snorted in a way that Adolin thought was distinctly dismissive. Well, perhaps there was more to complicate a horse’s life than a man could ever see.

p. 443

> I’m not using a key at all. I’m breaking the lock.

p. 529

> And storm Teft if it wasn’t a valid question. One not enough soldiers asked themselves. Right here, right now, should I be fighting? Is there a better way?

p. 1002

> And she would ask the best question of them all.
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> What will I discover next?

p. 585

> “I’m telling you to think!” his father snapped. “I’m telling you that if you want to change the world, you have to stop being part of the problem!”

p. 538

> In her little room of a laboratory, everything fit together. She’d met scholars who claimed they needed chaos to function. Perhaps that was true for some, but in her experience, good science wasn’t about sloppy inspiration. It was about meticulous incrementalization.

p. 982

> I wasn’t thinking straight, Veil thought. That’s kind of the point of drinking.…

p. 396

> A thousand wrong plans were no more useful that a single wrong one.

p. 572

> “The way you talk lacks hope.”
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> “‘Hope,’” she said, spreading her papers out on the table. “Have I ever told you how much I dislike that word? Think of what it means, what it implies. You have hope when you’re outnumbered. You have hope when you lack options. Hope is always irrational, Uncle.”

p. 1090

> Any information—even if you suspect your enemy is feeding it to you—is useful, son. More wars are lost to lack of information than are lost to lack of courage.

p. 667

> If there is one thing I can guarantee you about humankind, Last Listener, is is this: Provide them with a sword , and they will find a way to impale themselves upon it.”

p. 513