Orson Scott Card Stupid Quotations

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

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

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.