1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

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

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

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?

Madness, and then illumination.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.