Daniel Keyes

Quotes

1. Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.

2. 

   The answer can't be found in books — or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.

3. 

   The meaning of my total existence involves knowing the possibilities of my future as well as my past, where I'm going as well as where I've been.

4. 

   I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

5. 

   People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem — they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

6. 

   There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

7. 

   No one really starts anything new, Mrs Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

8. 

   So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

9. 

   Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

10. 

    My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.

11. 

    We learn what something is not — and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

12. 

    Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.