Orson Scott Card Quote

The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alien...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I...

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.