# Quote — Daniel Keyes, Flowers For Algernon

> How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?

- Author: [Daniel Keyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes.md)
- Book: [Flowers For Algernon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon.md)
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## More from this book

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

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> 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.

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> 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.

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