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

— Daniel Keyes

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

— Daniel Keyes

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

— Daniel Keyes

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— Daniel Keyes

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

— Daniel Keyes

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

— Daniel Keyes

It's easy to make friends if you let Paul Leigh at you.

— Daniel Keyes

I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with anyone who tries to steal my time.

— Daniel Keyes

Now I understand that 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.

— Daniel Keyes

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

— Daniel Keyes