Top 300 Terry Goodkind Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Think of the solution, not the problem.”

— Terry Goodkind

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2. “Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.”

— Terry Goodkind

3. “Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”

— Terry Goodkind

4. “If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.”

— Terry Goodkind

5. “Your life is your own. Rise up and live it.”

— Terry Goodkind

6. “Nothing is ever easy.”

— Terry Goodkind

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7. “Wizards First Rule: People are Stupid.”

— Terry Goodkind

8. “Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.”

— Terry Goodkind

9. “Deserve Victory.”

— Terry Goodkind

10. “People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”

— Terry Goodkind

11. “Dance with me, Death, I am ready.”

— Terry Goodkind

12. “Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”

— Terry Goodkind

13. “When you’re the leader, everything is your fault.”

— Terry Goodkind

14. “The Wizard’s First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.”

— Terry Goodkind

15. “I am who I am; no more, no less.”

— Terry Goodkind

16. “There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.”

— Terry Goodkind

17. “If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.”

— Terry Goodkind

18. “Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.”

— Terry Goodkind

19. “Wizard’s Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.”

— Terry Goodkind

20. “Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”

— Terry Goodkind

21. “Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

— Terry Goodkind

22. “When the whole world is crazy, it doesn’t pay to be sane.”

— Terry Goodkind

23. “Wizard’s Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.”

— Terry Goodkind

24. “Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.”

— Terry Goodkind

25. “Wizard’s Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”

— Terry Goodkind

26. “Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don’t need to prove it to someone who doesn’t know theirs.”

— Terry Goodkind

27. “Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don’t think for themselves; they only think about themselves.”

— Terry Goodkind

28. “There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”

— Terry Goodkind

29. “The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can’t relive yesterday.”

— Terry Goodkind

30. “But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.”

— Terry Goodkind

31. “Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.”

— Terry Goodkind

32. “I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”

— Terry Goodkind

33. “You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.”

— Terry Goodkind

34. “Love is not about what you want. It’s about finding happiness for the one you love.”

— Terry Goodkind

35. “Nothing marks a man’s character better than his attraction to intelligence.”

— Terry Goodkind

36. “Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.”

— Terry Goodkind

37. “But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.”

— Terry Goodkind

38. “Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.”

— Terry Goodkind

39. “It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.”

— Terry Goodkind

40. “Wizard’s Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.”

— Terry Goodkind

41. “Wizard’s Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”

— Terry Goodkind

42. “Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.”

— Terry Goodkind

43. “Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.”

— Terry Goodkind

44. “Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.”

— Terry Goodkind

45. “If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?”

— Terry Goodkind

46. “It isn’t what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It’s what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man – what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.”

— Terry Goodkind

47. “Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don’t ever forget that.”

— Terry Goodkind

48. “You can’t love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.”

— Terry Goodkind

49. “Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.”

— Terry Goodkind

50. “There is magic in sincere forgiveness – magic to heal.”

— Terry Goodkind