Terry Goodkind Quotes

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

We can't assume what we don't believe.

Everything is but what we think it.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

What you believe you experience.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.