Brandon Sanderson

Quotes

1. Navani wasn’t certain what to think about how easily it had happened. It was nice to make headway; yet in her experience, a fair breeze one day was the herald of a tempest to come.

   p. 273

2. 

   A good lie, the delicious kind, hinted at hidden grandeur or further secrets. This was instead the lie of a drunken has-been at the bar, trying to drum up enough pity to get a free drink. It was more pathetic than interesting.

   p. 73

3. 

   You could not arrive at excellence by the average of these people. Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.

   p. 1152

4. 

   She had been around enough intelligent people to know they worked best in an encouraging environment where study and discovery were rewarded.

   p. 261

5. 

   Some problems could not be fixed with a lie.

   p. 1084

6. 

   “Be wary,” Shallan whispered, “of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.”

   p. 1084

7. 

   “Where’s your sense of adventure?”

   “I dragged it out back and clubbed it senseless for getting me into the army.”

   p. 929

8. 

   That’s the trouble with science. It’s never done. Always upending itself. Ruining perfect systems for the little inconvenience of them being wrong.

   p. 222

9. 

   The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says similar groups have done in the past.

   p. 976

10. 

    “That was rude.”

    “Rudeness doesn’t imply untruth though.”

    p. 944

11. 

    Words on the page define men to future generations.

    p. 27

12. 

    Order was the very substance of rule. If things were organized, control could be asserted.

    p. 972