Brandon Sanderson

Quotes

1. She knew she shouldn’t let the lack of results bother her. Real scientists understood that experiments like this weren’t failures; they were necessary steps on the way to discovery.

   p. 796

2. 

   Wit dropped his bloody handkerchief before Ruthar. “How remarkable,” he said. “If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won’t stand up for you. There’s poetry in that, don’t you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?”

   p. 643

3. 

   We must not let our desires for a specific result cloud our perceptions.

   p. 672

4. 

   “No one ever accomplished anything by being content with who they were, Shallan,” Adolin said. “We accomplish great things by reaching toward who we could become.”

   “As long as it’s what you want to become. Not what someone else thinks you should become.”

   p. 441

5. 

   “It wouldn’t be polite for me to interrupt,” Notum said. “Please continue your insane rant.”

   p. 411

6. 

   “We proved nothing,” Navani said. “We had a single failed experiment.”

   p. 874

7. 

   Those gods had never deserved reverence. What was a god who only made demands? Nothing but a tyrant with a different name.

   p. 980

8. 

   Eventually Dalinar had done what any good commander did when faced by such persistent mass insubordination: He backed down. When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.

   p. 666

9. 

   “Your stories always have a point,” Kaladin said.

   “I am an artist,” Wit said. “I should thank you not to demean me by insisting my art must be trying to accomplish something. In fact, you shouldn’t enjoy art. You should simply admit that it exists, then move on. Anything else is patronizing.”

   p. 920

10. 

    “We need both heart and mind,” Lirin said. “The heart might provide the purpose, but the head provides the method, the path. Passion is nothing without a plan. Wanting something doesn’t make it happen.”

    p. 539

11. 

    All this time, he’s been asking what a god could possibly fear, but the answer was obvious. Odium feared men who would not obey him.

    p. 1173

12. 

    War was a masculine art, but when you started attacking women, you’d stopped engaging in war. You deserved anything that happened to you after that point.

    p. 1165