rand: "i have heard it said that you should believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see."

kadere: "a wise rule. yet to achieve greatly, a man must believe something. belief and knowledge pave the road to greatness. knowledge is perhaps the most valuable of all. we all seek the coin of knowledge."

- in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

faile: "a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both."

perrin: i am not a general, faile. i am a fool of a blacksmith who thought he could use other people to help him get justice, or maybe revenge. i still want it, but i don't want to use anyone else for it any longer."

faile: do you think they will go away because you decide your motives are not pure enough? Are they any less vile? do you need a purer reason to fight them than what they are?

- in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"the worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him." - faile, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"only a fool do reject sense, wherever it do come from." - baile domon, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"we know more than you think. and less than we believed. to believe a thing is not to make it true." - gaul, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"when you choose the fight, you must take the consequences, win or lose." - bain, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"you will remember enough to know some things that must be, despised as they may be, and some that must not, cherished hopes that they are. this is the beginning of being called wise." - amys, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"prophecy is no more than the sign of what people hope for. fulfilling the Prophecies will only bind you to a path..." - lanfear, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"move first, be the hammer, not the nail." - moraine, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"...how a nation was led as well as how it was governed, two very different things, but both necessary. and sometimes things had to be done for both that were worse than unpleasant, although the price of not doing them was worse still." - in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"confrontation was not her way when it could be avoided; it was better to guide people than try to hammer them into line." - in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"change. you know he brings change. it is wondering what change, and how, that makes us like children alone in the dark. since it must be, let it begin now." - rhuarc, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"i would not take your place for all the world, not with the fate that accompanies it. death or madness, or both. that you must die to save fools who will heave a sigh of relief at your death. no, i would not accept that for all your power and more." - natael, in robert jordan's the shadow rising

abell cauthon: "don't let it eat you inside. hate can grow till it burns everything else out of you."

perrin aybara: "nothing is eating me. i just mean to do what needs doing."

- in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"the best way to keep a secret was to make sure no one knew who did not absolutely have to know." - in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"just because a people's ways are different doesn't mean they are wrong." - egwene al'vere, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"you can't walk away from what has to be done." - perrin aybara, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"you can turn the worst that comes to your advantage if you only think." - in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result." - siuan sanche, in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"the more people know a thing, the more the knowledge spreads, even with the best will." - siuan sanche, in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"rumor is the voice of the people, and the voice of the people often speaks truth." - thom merrilin, in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings." - elayne, in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"for the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. for those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon." - rhuarc, in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"such trouble it causes killing a man, even when he deserves killing. kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. the question is, was it worth doing anyway? there's always a balance, you know. good and evil. light and dhadow. we would not be human if there wasn't a balance." - thom merillin, in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"to lead is neither to push nor to pull." - leanne, in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"

"those bonds would not hold her again, not because she hated them, but because she had outgrown them." - in robert jordan's "the dragon reborn"