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As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.
“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then knows that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day’s horizon.”
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
― The Walking Drum
― The Walking Drum
“A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.”
― The Walking Drum
― The Walking Drum
“He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.”
― The Walking Drum
― The Walking Drum
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