Confessor Quotes

“I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule
The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Your life belongs to you alone. Rise up and live it!" ~Richard Rahl”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

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

“Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“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.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor