“You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: 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.
“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
“It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.
“I am not only a thing, but also a way of being”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
Flowers for Algernon (1966)