Daniel Keyes Quotes

This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I've found it, how ca...

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...

I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and ...

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTI...

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong...

I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment...

I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (wh...

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ...

The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge...

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

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

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be gratefu...

How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselve...

Other people had something I lacked something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it w...

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have so...

Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for m...

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the ...

Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in ...

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wa...

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what...

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being s...

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now...

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you wan...

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, m...

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat...

Punctuation, is? fun!

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space...

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out...

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this tim...

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."--Charlie Gordan

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover y...

But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intel...

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: ...

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than t...

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in th...