Orson Scott Card Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Mistake, Believe

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.79, Macmillan

• I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Ignorance, Ignorant

• If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, Mind, Information

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Shadow: Book 1 of The Shadow Saga”, p.65, Hachette UK

• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, Hard Times, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

• The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, People, Purity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1126, Macmillan

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