Top 15 Brandon Sanderson Quotes

It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth to seek it out.

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

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

Some problems could not be fixed with a lie.

Who cares what your ancestors did, when the enemy is trying to kill you right now?

When has any tyrant ever said to himself, 'This is enough'?

All life worked in concert, he’d been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

'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.'

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.

New recruits might get bored by guard duty, but you’ll never find a veteran complaining about a nice quiet afternoon of not being stabbed.

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

Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.

Kaladin had never had much time for art. Either the picture depicted something useful—like a map—or it was basically pointless.

Where's your sense of adventure?

Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.