Brynden Blackfish Quotes

#1. And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

Aristotle.

#2. When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between yes and no.
Silence.

Dan Brown

#3. For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.

Mark Bauerlein

#4. What are men? Children who doubt.

Derek Walcott

#5. You've got five minutes to get your ass up and in the shower, or the shower's coming to you.

Sylvia Day

#6. Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#7. I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.

George R R Martin

#8. This lack of translation is a mental handicap that comes with being a human; and we will only start to attain wisdom or rationality when we make an effort to overcome and break through it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb