Navani Kholin Quotes

#1. I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Navani!" Dalinar shouted, pulling his horse to a slippery stop across the tarp from her. "I need a miracle!"
"Working on it," she shouted back.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Albert Einstein

#6. Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. Last, you've got to do more leading and less managing. Be a visible and motivating presence.

Rob Roy

#8. You don't have to be rich and famous to have adventures!

Edmond P. DeRousse

#9. Something is either right or it's wrong," Dalinar said, feeling stubborn. "The Almighty doesn't come into it."
"God," Navani said flatly, "doesn't come into whether his commands are right or wrong."
"Er. Yes.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...

Abraham Lincoln

#11. Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest influence.

Plato