Daži labi citāti no Orson Scott Card. Tie, par kuriem paliek sajūta, ka tas ir tieši tas, ko jau sen semu mēģinājusi citiem pateikt.

Izlikšanās un iejušanās.

When you really know somebody, you can't hate them...or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be

Reliģija

Everyone you say who says that they have no religious beliefs is just so certain about their belief that they accept it as truth. If you just start asking probing questions, and they start getting mad, then you've found their religion

"Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent."

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines — the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by."

Zināšanas

"Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon."

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them – noticing them – that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement

Humans never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mindless pseudo-knowledge and bully other people into accepting their prejudices as if they were truth, but it all amounts to the same thing. Individually, human beings are all dolts