Daniel Keyes Quotes

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The wise are wise only because they love.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It is by love alone that we understand anything

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.