Sanity Quotes

446 Sanity quotes by 353 unique authors

Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden… — Loren Eiseley
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out… — Mother Jones
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. — Robert Anton Wilson
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time… — Wilfrid
To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb. — Stuart Wilde
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men… — Ronald Fisher
The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back… — Paul Polman
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. — Silvia Cartwright
For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments… — Laird Hamilton
It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world? — John Moffitt
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no… — Wendell Berry
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense. — Gene Spafford
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean… — Gerald May
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths. — Josephine Hart
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake. — Michael Shurtleff
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession… — L. Ron Hubbard
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind… — Sakyong Mipham
True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and… — R. D. Laing
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... — Anton Szandor LaVey
"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is… — Alan Watts
Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself. — Unknown Author
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. — Angela Carter
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it… — Unknown Author
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or… — ZoÃ« Heller

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