Daniel Tammet Quotes

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by li...

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of...

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ...

There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I...

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, ...

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Profes...

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was l...

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so...

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Pr...

I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like...

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the perso...

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite po...

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have...

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings ...

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a b...

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world...