Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. John Wyndham More Quotes by John Wyndham More Quotes From John Wyndham Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for John Wyndham differences knowing trying I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body. John Wyndham self heart children The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital. John Wyndham sacred-things scared clock To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse. John Wyndham companionship freak reason Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at. John Wyndham taught different children I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about. John Wyndham different children ideas I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost. John Wyndham men book thinking There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable. John Wyndham will-to-survive ocean war The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it. John Wyndham machines ambition hope When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. John Wyndham
