1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said...

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.