Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 5

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone.

What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us
sick.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can-what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.