Orson Scott Card Quotes on Self awareness
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[He] always seemed to take it so personally that the universe didn't always work the way he wanted it to
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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.
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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.
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Sister Carlotta is a nun. You'll never find a more honest person Honest people have been known to deceive themselves
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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?
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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.
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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
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A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself
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She knew exactly what she had done to him. And yet she couldn't quite believe that she was jerking him around
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There's a lot of guys around who are better for you than I am
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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
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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
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But she could see that she had wounded him. He had been stupid, but he was smart enough to recognize the fact
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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Well, I wish I could tell you that Ender is like me, but Ender is very, very smart.
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'I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. -Ender's Shadow
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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