“You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
tags: courage, knowledge, wisdom
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“Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Stories have power. Gleemen's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
tags: inspirational-quotes-about-life, motivational, philosophy-of-life, power-of-words, wheel-of-time
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“The seals that hold back night shall weaken, and in the heart of winter shall winter's heart be born amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth, for winter's heart shall ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death.
-from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Take what you want, and pay for it, the old saying went.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“You can never know everything,” Lan said quietly, “and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“There was nothing a woman would not tell you if you kissed her enough.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Beauty flees,”[...]Will you no longer be you? Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Battles can alter history. He did not sound pleased with it. The trouble is, sometimes you cannot say how history will be changed until it is too late.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“A man who trusts everyone is a fool, Lews Therin said, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Tai’shar Manetheren,” he said softly. Nynaeve’s mouth fell open, then curled into a tremulous smile. Sudden tears glistened in her eyes as she spun to face him, her face joyous. He smiled back at her, and there was nothing cold in his eyes. Elayne”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Most people were more willing to talk about fighting than to do it, especially against soldiers.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Yamada might be a good general—Mat did not know—but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“people often did not like hearing about their futures, even when they said they wanted to.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Looking a queen is not enough, her mother had told her often, but a fine mind, a keen grasp of affairs, and a brave heart will go for nothing if people do not see you as a queen.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“explain decisions as seldom as possible; the more often you explained, the more explanations were necessary, until they were all you had time for.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Hopper sent to him, but you are here too strongly, and too long from your body.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“We are dead men, Lews Therin murmured. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“Light, women would believe anything about a man so long as it was bad. And the worse it was, the more they had to talk about it.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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“You did not rise in the ships just through your ability to Weave the Winds or predict the weather or fix a position. You needed to read the intent that lay between the words of your orders, to interpret small gestures and facial expressions; you had to notice who deferred to whom, even subtly, for courage and ability alone took you only so high.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
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