Psychology Quotes by Orson Scott Card

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

— Orson Scott Card

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

— Orson Scott Card

“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?”

— Orson Scott Card

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

— Orson Scott Card

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

— Orson Scott Card

“My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.”

— Orson Scott Card

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

— Orson Scott Card

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“... intellectuals seemed to think that their life - the life of the mind, the endless self examination, the continuous autobiography afflicted…

— Orson Scott Card

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

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