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Sanity Quotes - Page 6

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Attributed to Abraham Maslow in "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution" by Colin Wilson (p.155-156), 1972.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Animi Tranquillitate, XV. 10, 1922.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.91, Hachette UK

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

"Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

"Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

Insanity is contagious.

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, Satires, II. 120, 1922.

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”