17 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Self awareness

Orson Scott Card quotes on self awareness

95. [He] always seemed to take it so personally that the universe didn't always work the way he wanted it to

144. Why did I come? I didn't come. I went. I wasn't coming here, to meet these people. I was leaving there. Getting away. Only I tricked myself.

203. He's not as smart as he thinks he is Yes he is. And if you doubt it, you're not as smart as you think you are.

255. Sister Carlotta is a nun. You'll never find a more honest person Honest people have been known to deceive themselves

283. Doesn't it occur to you that the very fact that you're asking me this question tells me there's something else for me to figure out, and therefore greatly increases the chance that I will figure it out?

284. It was as if Graff had read his heart and found the lie that would penetrate most deeply into his soul and told it to him.

392. Individual people have always been more important to her than to me. It's my weakness, that I don't have her awareness of other people's feelings

505. A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

628. She knew exactly what she had done to him. And yet she couldn't quite believe that she was jerking him around

634. There's a lot of guys around who are better for you than I am

658. You may think you ashamed, but you not. Deep down in your heart. You know you done it all You don't know what I feel

720. She didn't sound glad. It irritated him a little. Hurt his feelings. But instead of going off to nurse his wounds, he merely noticed his emotions as if he were a dispassionate observer. He saw himself; important self-made man, yet at home a little boy who can be hurt, not even by a word, but by a short pause of indecision. Sensitive, sensitive, and he was amused at himself: for a moment he almost saw himself standing a few inches away, could observe even the bemused expression on his own face

841. But she could see that she had wounded him. He had been stupid, but he was smart enough to recognize the fact

925. She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

1052. Well, I wish I could tell you that Ender is like me, but Ender is very, very smart.

1062. 'I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. -Ender's Shadow

1090. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. '(Ender's Game) Spoken by Ender