Orson Scott Card Quotes on Self knowledge

5 quotes

  1. Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

  2. Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance

  3. I'm also vain. But I believe that true humility consists of recognizing the truth about yourself

  4. Only maybe he did get it. The joke wasn't men, the joke was people who didn't know what they wanted to give or get and so kept disappointing and being disappointed.

  5. [He] didn't know what he wanted, but he did know what he didn't want. What he didn't want was any of the girls at school. He had lots of friends who were girls. He liked them. Nice girls. Just not for him.

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