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A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.
Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.
Why was it that scientists were so excited to discover facts that farmers had known for generations and generations?
The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.
“People are discord,” Syl said. “What does that mean?” “You all act differently and think differently. Nothing else is like that—animals act alike, and all spren are, in a sense, virtually the same individual. There’s harmony in that. But not in you—it seems that no two of you can agree on anything. All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that’s why you so often want to kill each other.”
A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.”
If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and cushioning of thrones.’
no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.
To be human is to want that which we cannot have.”
