1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn’t care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth – when the truth was gettable.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home.

Until you know that you’re tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don’t commit to battle.

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that ‘good’ is an infinitely recursive term – it can’t be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it’s better than bad, though why it’s better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I’m gone. There’s no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church” said Ceas, “When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they’d say on television later.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.