Orson Scott Card Quotes

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human ...

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and in...

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were ...

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strik...

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (an...

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

Stories are invented as you go along...

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and ...

He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people...

If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the off...

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.""He reached that conclusion before he saw me rais...

Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always som...

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity th...

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

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

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies"- No?"Only skies and stars, in a...

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

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indee...

Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brough...

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met ...

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

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

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other...

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had...

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistak...

someone's senta loving notein lines of returning geeseand as the moon fillsmy western chamberas peta...

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, ...

I wonder sometimes if I'm not, after all, a piece in some other player's game, following blindly his...

I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was."Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who...

My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton i...

The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The advers...

«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it....

I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can...

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah som...

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater ...

He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assu...

A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborio...

That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but b...

He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a des...

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fa...

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a te...

And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more s...

We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.Danny was touched. "But the thi...

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just inv...

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

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that mornin...

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to tr...

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow...

I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Sty...

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering h...

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

You were baptized?""My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother wa...

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to ...

You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.The Sp...

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know the...

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the mo...

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

I will never hurt you.I will always help you.If you are hungryIll give you my food.If you are fright...

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just so...

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?""I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stu...

My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended...

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome eve...

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is a...

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how fill...

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake an...

I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is requir...

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other g...

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is ...

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

By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, the...

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. Tha...

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Bo...

With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexual...

I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at l...

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can d...

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, ...

So she retreated into herself, rebuilt the damaged pathways of her mind, explored long-unvisited mem...

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

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading ...

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the rea...

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist...

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effect...

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science f...

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the musi...

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold...

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