“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Could you possibly be a little more incoherent?" asked Olivenko. "There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I am a son of David and Jeanine O’Toole. I am a son of Earth. And you, you bug-eyed bastards, cannot have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Never true,' Old Ben would say. 'Useful- now, there's something. Your mind might make a connection that is useful. But true is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The story in my mind is nothing but a hope; the text of the story is the tool I created in order… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“So you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“... intellectuals seemed to think that their life - the life of the mind, the endless self examination, the continuous autobiography afflicted… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share