Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
Orson Scott CardTags: grief
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
Orson Scott CardTags: secret
Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?
Orson Scott CardSo you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others, and people look at you and say, poor girl, she’s so isolated, but you know a secret, you know who you really are. You are the one human being who is capable of understanding the alien mind, because you are the alien mind; you know what it is to be unhuman because there’s never been any human group that gave you credentials as a bona fide homo sapien
# [He] wondered if it was already too late to teach her how to be a human
A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
Orson Scott CardIn the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.
Orson Scott CardTags: love hate understanding epiphany enemy
An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.
Orson Scott CardTags: enemy learning-from-enemies learning-from-others mazer-rackham
Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won
Orson Scott CardWhen you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
Orson Scott CardTags: knowledge han-fei-tzu
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
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