Wizard's First Rule
Quotes from the Book
Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.
Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.
Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara
Freedom is never easy to keep and can easily be lost. All it takes is willful indifference.
Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breath life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded,not of thinking rational people.
Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.
It never failed to amaze her how simply saying something, no matter how untrue, was all it took to convince a large number of people of what you wanted them to believe.
Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.
His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion.
Even without the drizzle and approaching darkness, it was a miserable time to be digging up dead people.
No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.
wire-wound hilt greeted his fingers. The sword lay on the ground beside him.
Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us,” Kahlan murmured yet again. “In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled. We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.
Watch on YouTube
About Terry Goodkind
More by Terry Goodkind
All books by Terry Goodkind →Book details
- Author
- Terry Goodkind
- Genre
- Fiction
- Goodreads rating
- 3.96 (55k ratings) →
Keep reading
Soul of the Fire
Forge of Darkness
Confessor
Faith of the Fallen
The Blinding Knife
Oathbringer
The Grace of Kings
Rapture
The Dagger of Adendigaeth
The Magus
Shadow's Edge
The Way of Kings
Embers
The First Circle
Beyond the Shadows
Golden Fool
Fall of Light
The Resistance
The Stand
Shōgun
The Shadowglass
Children of Dune
The Fall
Immortal
Sacred Hunger
The Warrior Prophet
Fool's Quest
Rot & Ruin
The Once and Future King
The Last Mortal Bond
Scion of Ikshvaku
Fool's Fate
Red Sister
The Winner Stands Alone
Toll the Hounds
The Jewel in the Crown
The Dinosaur Lords
The Desert Spear
Last Argument of Kings
The Wall of Storms
Crown of Feathers
Company of Liars
Natchez Burning
The Snowman
The Power of One
Lilith
Fell
A Darkness At Sethanon
UnSouled
The Sunlit Man
The Mime Order
A Voice in the Wind
Queen of Fire
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Falling Kingdoms
Son of a Witch
Death Comes as the End
The Thousandfold Thought
The Invasion of the Tearling

