Quotes About Perspective

don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but the map.

And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.

We are like you; the thought pressed into his mind. We did not mean to murder, and when we understood, we never came again. We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams. How were we to know? We could live with you in peace. Believe us, believe us, believe us.

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.

They did not wait so eagerly for each new transmission from the ansible; the names that were famous on earth meant little to them now.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en el que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero.

Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quiere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

The story in my mind is nothing but a hope; the text of the story is the tool I created in order to try to make that hope a reality. The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them—" "You beat them.

It takes one evangelist to understand another.

El problema con las monedas es que cuando una cara está boca arriba, la otra está boca abajo

The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears... If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Ah,' said Speaker. 'There's so much that we don't understand. And so much that you don't understand. We should tell each other more.

When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them." ? , Speaker for the Dead

If you think that," said Bean, "you're an idiot." "Actually, I do think that, and I'm not an idiot.

Cuando conoces de verdad a alguien, no puedes odiarle. Tal vez sea que no puedes conocer a nadie de verdad hasta que dejas de odiar.