Terry Goodkind Quotes

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

No people do as much harm as those who go about doing good.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.