“More than that,” Sazed said. “To wear these metalminds would be to pretend. I would be pretending that I find the things in them to be of use, and I have not yet decided whether that is true. To wear them now would seem a betrayal. I set them aside, for I can do them no justice. I’m not ready to believe, as we did before, that gathering knowledge and religions is more important than taking action. Perhaps if the Keepers had fought, rather than simply memorized, the Lord Ruler would have fallen centuries ago.”
