The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)

by Brandon Sanderson

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity—that was how to get stuff done.

That was when I still cared about their opinions, I guess. Before I learned how much power over a situation you gain when you decide that you don’t care what others think of you.”

It seemed to him that the smarter a man was, the more likely he was to pretend he knew more than he did.