Quotes by Terry goodkind
Richard said reason is our only way of grasping reality - that its our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking - to reject reason - but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?
The second rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong and can cause harm.
Nathan bought himself a sword today. He is now fighting invisible monsters. He is a one thousand year old child.
We present Lord Rahl, the Seeker of Truth and wielder of the Sword of Truth, the bringer of death, the Master of D'Hara, the ruler of the Midlands, the commander of the gar nation, the champion of free people and bane of the wicked, and the betrothed of the Mother Confessor.
Hurry up and torture me before I fall asleep and miss it.
It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man's throat and dictate how he must live his life. No society is more important than the individuals who compose it, or else you ascribe supreme importance, not to man, but to any notion that strikes the fantasy of that society at a never ending cost of lives.
The first law of reason is what exists, exists; what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principle all knowledge is built. He said that was the foundation from which life is embraced. He said thinking is a choice, and that wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means to discover them.
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true....or being afraid it is.
Every person's life is theirs by right. An individuals life can and must only belong to himself, no to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life.
Think of the solution not the problem.
Nothing is ever easy.
Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
You want to be healed, now? Or would you prefer to bleed to death so I can try my hand at resurrection?
If you get yourself killed trying to rule the world, I will personally break every bone in your body.
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.
The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know. A wise person doesn't string together the beads of unrelated events into a necklace simply to have something they wish to see. A wise person sees the truth even if it is something unexpected. That is the most beautiful necklace to wear - the truth.
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.
People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.