Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.
Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
If I talk about what I'm good at, I seem like I'm a conceited egomaniac.
You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
My most popular blogs end up being the ones where I talk about being a dad.
I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
I'm a firm supporter of the word polyamory. But that one is close to my heart.
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.
...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.
Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.