When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?