When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius…

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

— Mark Twain

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

— Scott Adams

When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids,…

— Jack LaLanne

Jesus was a crackpot.

— Rajneesh

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

— Anonymous

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

— Warren Beatty

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when…

— Harry S. Truman

For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are…

— C. Wright Mills

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The…

— Ellen Willis

“Alas, some of those crackpots will only be eliminated by something lethal, such as a firing squad. The best we can do unless you…

— Andrew Williams

Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because…

— Freeman Dyson

Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

— Kristin Cashore

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

— John Derbyshire

“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a…

— Joyce Cary

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

— Steve Sheinkin