One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?” — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“... 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 can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
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
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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