“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“These other armies, they aren’t the enemy. It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It’s to make use of whatever knowledge you have.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I firmly believe that a good storyteller's education never ends, because to tell stories perfectly you have to know everything about everything.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Most of them are making… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical… — 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
