Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“...sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
People in your life may be acting a bit crazy now, but don't let it get under your skin. Just because others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet… — Sudhir Kakar Copy Share Image
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Insanity,” said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. “That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of… — Daniel Coleman Copy Share Image
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of… — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
“We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“I’d actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
