Terry Goodkind Quotes

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Wizard's Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Think of the solution, not the problem

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.