3 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Error

Orson Scott Card quotes on error

185. In [his] mind, madness. Thousands of competing contradictory impossible visions that make no sense all because they can't all fit together but they do fit together, he makes them fit together, this way today, that way tomorrow, as they're needed. As if he can make a new idea-machine inside his head for every new problem he faces. As if he conceives of a new universe to live in, every hour a new one, often hopelessly wrong and he ends up making mistakes and bad judgments, but sometimes so perfectly right that it opens things up like a miracle and I look through his eyes and see the world his new way and it changes everything. Madness, and then illumination. We knew everything there was to know before... Now we discover that there are so many ways of knowing the same things that we'll never find them all.

289. Yet throughout history, great victories had come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battle.

760. How is it possible that stupidity should end our lives when our enemies' cleverest stratagems had not