Top 300 Terry Goodkind Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.”

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152. “Save your anger for the enemy. Here it will do you no good; there, it can overcome fear. Use this time now to teach your sword what to do, so later it will do it without conscious thought.”

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153. “She’s the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I’ve never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.”

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154. “History is rarely made by reasonable men.”

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155. “Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.”

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156. “Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either,” Naja said, “and that doesn’t involve magic.”

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157. “Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.”

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158. “Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn’t necessarily wrong.”

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159. “Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”

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160. “To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.”

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161. “I know, Magda, your heart, and your loyalty to your love for me. But don’t let that be the end of your ability to love. That love wouldn’t harm me, or diminish me, or change what we had. It can only add to you and who you are. You need to embrace the reality of what is, not what was.”

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162. “Hatred has such powerful emotions attached to it that others take it up out of fear. In that way, hate spreads like panic in a crowd.”

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163. “You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don’t punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.”

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164. “Oftentimes it’s easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn’t always so attractive.”

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165. “Books were links that spanned such missing human bonds or even times of savagery and its resulting ages of ignorance.”

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166. “Such beliefs were born in man’s willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.”

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167. “Standing there, chisel and mallet in hand, gazing at the statue that was his vision in stone, was a moment when Richard could savor the supreme achievement of having his creation exist exactly as he had originally conceived it. For this singular moment in time, it was complete, and it was his alone.”

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168. “And right now you’re doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.”

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169. “She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil.”

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170. “I’m going to do the worst possible thing I could do to you and your people – what my grandfather would have done to you. “I’m going to leave you all to suffer the consequences of your own actions.”

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171. “Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.”

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172. “Ah, but Sorceress, on such a journey as ours, is one ever truly done with saving the world?”

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173. “Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don’t give in. Don’t let him rule you. If you are to die, die fighting with everything you have, everything you know. That is the way of a dragon.”

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174. “Powerful people who lose power do not feel anguish and heartache like a jilted lover.”

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175. “Of course, disinformation,” Quinn said. “I can do that. I’ll leave out critical events, then I’ll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place.”

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176. “In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.”

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177. “It’s so good to see you,” she whispered privately in the midst of the crowd. When she held him, there was no crowd, there was only him. There was always only him in her heart and soul.”

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178. “Anger made a better warrior than fear.”

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179. “It is not a weakness, child, to be a victim.”

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180. “Your destiny is to find the truth.”

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181. “The power of Orden predates the star shift.”

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182. “Not all choices in life are ones you would like, but those are all that are presented to you. Sometimes you must choose what is better for the ones you love than yourself.”

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183. “Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don’t question, who don’t even know how to question. For most people, it’s not the truth that is important, it’s the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.”

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184. “People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”

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185. “Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create.”

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186. “No one is as fanatical as a convert.”

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187. “When you hear the word ‘tyranny of magic’ as we heard from Elder Caldell, you will know that it is the calling card of killers. Don’t be fooled by their platitudes that is for the common good. Their real power is to strip us of our abilities so that they may easily conquer and rule us.”

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188. “Better to see the dangers in the world and be ready when someone inevitably turns on you. It is a far preferable surprise to find that a person is kinder than you think, than to discover he is secretly a traitor.”

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189. “I know you and I know the way you feel, but you have to listen to me. The time has not yet come. It may never come. You may think I’m wrong in this, but if you close your eyes to the reality of what is, in favor of what you would wish just because you’re the Mother Confessor and feel responsible for the people of the Midlands, then there is no reason for us to bother hoping we’ll be together again because we won’t. We will be dead, and the cause of freedom will be dead.”

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190. “No amount of telling is worth doing it once.”

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191. “If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.”

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192. “The good in life is what quenches hatred in normal people, the way a smile can calm a quarrel. But in those people who carry this flaw, their hatred burns so hot they come to hate what is good in life specifically because they don’t want to stop hating. Hatred becomes the driving purpose of their lives. They live to hate.”

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193. “Civilization must always defend itself.”

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194. “He had sometimes looked into her eyes and whispered to himself how bewitching she was, as if she weren’t there hearing him, as if he were all alone looking upon some exceptional specimen rather than his wife.”

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195. “The time for desperation is upon us. Let’s play.” – Zedd.”

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196. “The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.”

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197. “Have you heard the old adage advising to always grow oleanders at your back door?” Nicci asked.”

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198. “Wizard’s First Rule: people are stupid, they believe what they want to believe.”

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199. “She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde – by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost.”

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200. “Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.”

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