Quotes from book

The Wise Man's Fear

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”

“Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.”

“Anyone can love a thing. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”

“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”

“Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he’s worth my time.”
Kvothe: “That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.”

“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”

“But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.”

“I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.”

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

“Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

“in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.”

“You can´t prove nonexistence".”

“I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.”

“… if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

“My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.”

“But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.”

“I won the only duel I ever lost.”

“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”