# Quote — Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

> Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

- Author: [Dean Koontz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz.md)
- Book: [The Good Guy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/the-good-guy.md)
- Page: 147
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz#The_Good_Guy_(2007)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/the-good-guy/experts-must-read

## More from this book

> Sheep were docile, yes, but vigilant. Unlike many people, sheep were always aware that predators existed and were alert for the scent and the schemes of wolves.
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> Contemporary Americans were so proseperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/the-good-guy/sheep-were-docile.md)

> In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

p. 147 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/the-good-guy/in-a-world.md)

> "Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
>
> "Which is where?"
>
> "To a responsible future in a properly managed world."

p. 368 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/the-good-guy/fear-is-a-hammer.md)