Orson Scott Card Quotes on Thinking
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Not that they talked - [they] knew each other so well that there was often nothing to say. But without her there, [he] grew impatient with his own thoughts; they never came to a point, because there was no one to tell them to
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How can I figure out something that isn't just the logical conclusion of things that human beings have already figured out and written somewhere? You think of things all the time I'm trying to conceive of something inconceivable. I'm trying to find answers to questions that humans beings have never even tried to ask.
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You're making us very tired, with all your thinking of stupid imaginary impossible things.
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Analyzing things was fine, but good reflexes could save your life.
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On the beach he had been able to run for the shore. Where do you run to get away from the oversoul? You didn't. You couldn't hide, either - how could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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It's not as if she chose to do mental gymnastics beyond the reach of anyone she had ever met in person.
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Never mind. Put it back where it belongs, in memory, not in the forefront of thought
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Don't be too anxious to control other people's ideas
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I think that many things can come into someone's mind out of hysteria
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And then [he] wondered why he would think of such a useless question at a time like this
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Why am I so certain of my doubt? What? why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers
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As long as my body did their bidding, what did it matter what I thought?
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Why are you at war with yourself? I want things that I do not want to want. Please leave me But why shouldn't you have what you want?
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Then he thought, is my life so empty that this is the best thing I can think of to think about?
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Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. (Children of the Mind)
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Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.