Wizard Rules

1. People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool. - (Wizard's First Rule)

2. The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. - (Stone of Tears)

3. Passion rules reason. - (Blood of the Fold)

4. There is magic in sincere forgiveness. Magic to heal. In forgiveness you grant, and more so in the forgiveness you receive. - (Temple of the Winds)

5. Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. - (Soul of the Fire)

6. The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced. - (Faith of the Fallen)

7. Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to it's fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices. - (The Pillars of Creation)

8. Deserve victory. - (Naked Empire)

9. A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. - (Chainfire)

10. Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. - (Phantom)

11. The rule of all rules. The rule unwritten. "The Unwritten Rule" which must be experienced before true understanding. Everything exists within us; your life is your own. - (Confessor)

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth.

Oh, but how I do love it when men I respect marry smart women. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. - Ann Aldurren (Soul of the Fire)

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. - Kahlan Amnell (Wizard's First Rule)

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. - Richard

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. - Zedd

Think of the solution, not the problem. - Richard

Fate does not seek our consent. - Zedd

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking. - Zedd

I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends. - Zedd (Wizard's First Rule)

History is rarely made by reasonable men. - Zedd

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. - Richard (Temple of the Winds)

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind. - Nathan Rahl

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. - Nicci

Evil is not one large entity, but a collection of countless, small depravities brought up from the muck by petty men. - Richard

It is the first responsibility of a friend to provide a shoulder to cry on. - Richard

Teachings that defy reason, defy reality; what defies reality, defies life. Defying life is embracing death. - Richard (Confessor)

Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it. - Richard (Faith of the Fallen)

Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. - Richard (Faith of the Fallen)

If we all knew each other's secrets, it would prove a very strange world, besides it would take all fun out of the telling of them. - Zedd (Wizard's First Rule)