Truth Quotes by Orson Scott Card

“Stories are invented as you go along...”

— Orson Scott Card

“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.”

— Orson Scott Card

“I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them.”

— Orson Scott Card

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

— Orson Scott Card

“Anything that is possible to be believed is an image of truth.”

— Orson Scott Card

“So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.”

— Orson Scott Card

“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.”

— Orson Scott Card

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

— Orson Scott Card

“I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.”

— Orson Scott Card

“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the…

— Orson Scott Card

“No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)”

— Orson Scott Card

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing…

— Orson Scott Card

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

— Orson Scott Card

“The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending…

— Orson Scott Card

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

— Orson Scott Card

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to…

— Orson Scott Card

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence.…

— Orson Scott Card

“Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die...the truth about ourselves. Somehow this ancient…

— Orson Scott Card

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because…

— Orson Scott Card

“Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a…

— Orson Scott Card

“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into…

— Orson Scott Card

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never…

— Orson Scott Card

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if…

— Orson Scott Card

“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked…

— Orson Scott Card

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens…

— Orson Scott Card

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so…

— Orson Scott Card

“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it…

— Orson Scott Card

“I think you can’t possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. I think the Speaker loved Father. Marcão, I…

— Orson Scott Card

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind…

— Orson Scott Card

“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because…

— Orson Scott Card

“I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sort them out.…

— Orson Scott Card

“Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's…

— Orson Scott Card

“The truth is that good fantasies carefully limit the magic that's possible. In fact, the magic has to be defined, at least…

— Orson Scott Card

“Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything…

— Orson Scott Card

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

— Orson Scott Card

“most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes.”

— Orson Scott Card

“It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.”

— Orson Scott Card

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

— Orson Scott Card

“Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take…

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“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”

— Orson Scott Card