Christopher Paolini Mind Quotations

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.