Top 300 Terry Goodkind Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less.”

— Terry Goodkind

52. “Once you teach me something, it’s mine to use.”

— Terry Goodkind

53. “To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.”

— Terry Goodkind

54. “No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.”

— Terry Goodkind

55. “The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.”

— Terry Goodkind

56. “Wizard’s Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one’s self.”

— Terry Goodkind

57. “Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.”

— Terry Goodkind

58. “Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”

— Terry Goodkind

59. “Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.”

— Terry Goodkind

60. “Fools who won’t see the truth are deadly.”

— Terry Goodkind

61. “People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.”

— Terry Goodkind

62. “I’d rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”

— Terry Goodkind

63. “Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don’t always understand...”

— Terry Goodkind

64. “Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.”

— Terry Goodkind

65. “Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you’ve destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you’ve done your job, then there aren’t any of the enemy left to dispute your leader’s reasons. At least not until the next war.”

— Terry Goodkind

66. “Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.”

— Terry Goodkind

67. “It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.”

— Terry Goodkind

68. “The training of a Mord-Sith takes years – to learn to handle the pain. I guess it’s also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.”

— Terry Goodkind

69. “The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.”

— Terry Goodkind

70. “Right and wrong are not the product of census.”

— Terry Goodkind

71. “You can’t argue with the fools in the world. It’s better to let them have their way, then trick them when they’re not paying attention.”

— Terry Goodkind

72. “I’m surprised you don’t know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word ’please.”

— Terry Goodkind

73. “But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.”

— Terry Goodkind

74. “The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.”

— Terry Goodkind

75. “In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.”

— Terry Goodkind

76. “Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. “Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.”

— Terry Goodkind

77. “Wizard’s Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.”

— Terry Goodkind

78. “We can’t live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”

— Terry Goodkind

79. “If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”

— Terry Goodkind

80. “One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.”

— Terry Goodkind

81. “Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what’s happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.”

— Terry Goodkind

82. “I don’t think I could have written what I did any earlier.”

— Terry Goodkind

83. “After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, ‘Well, when you retire you can move there.’ But I said, ‘Why should I live my whole life where I don’t want to be.’”

— Terry Goodkind

84. “Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.”

— Terry Goodkind

85. “Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.”

— Terry Goodkind

86. “Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.”

— Terry Goodkind

87. “Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”

— Terry Goodkind

88. “Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.”

— Terry Goodkind

89. “Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created a new.”

— Terry Goodkind

90. “Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.”

— Terry Goodkind

91. “Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.”

— Terry Goodkind

92. “Grrratch luuug Raaaach aaarg.”

— Terry Goodkind

93. “Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.”

— Terry Goodkind

94. “I had to live this long, have the experiences I’ve had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn’t blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.”

— Terry Goodkind

95. “Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.”

— Terry Goodkind

96. “Fate does not seek our consent.”

— Terry Goodkind

97. “That’s what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.”

— Terry Goodkind

98. “You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.”

— Terry Goodkind

99. “To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan.”

— Terry Goodkind

100. “Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light.”

— Terry Goodkind