Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Yes, I could have traveled quickly. But all men have been the same ultimate destination. Whether we find our end in a hallowed sepulcher or a pauper’s ditch, all save the Heralds themselves must dine with the Nightwatcher.

Morality is an axis that doesn't interest us

Men often place pride before reason.

All stories have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.

The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it?
It’s the next one.

Pattern hummed. “Truth is individual.”
“What? No it’s not. Truth is…it’s Truth. Reality.”

I haven't faith in people any longer, old friend

She’d had so much more time when she was younger. She couldn’t help thinking she’d wasted much of it.

To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough.

'The question,' she replied, 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what' you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and "how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.'

Never apologize for being clever, Shallan. It sets a bad precedent.

I hadn't thought to find ardents who were willing to question their own beliefs.

Taravangian did not believe in any religion, for they were unwieldy things, designed to fill gaps in human understanding with nonsensical explanations, allowing people to sleep well at night, granting them a false sense of comfort and control and preventing them from stretching further for true understanding.

An army was the sort of thing everyone wanted to have, so long as it was off doing important things elsewhere.