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"