Sanity Quotes

446 Sanity quotes by 353 unique authors

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified… — James Gleick
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges.… — Marshall Ulrich
The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild… — Timothy Egan
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his… — Wilson Bryan Key
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them… — Nellie Bly
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a… — Mark Lawrence
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness — Peter Thiel
Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease. — H. Beam Piper
Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to maintain their own… — Keith Johnstone
The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have… — Unknown Author
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity. — Julie Powell
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to… — Charles Bowden
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the… — Geneen Roth
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. — George Weinberg
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. — Hunter S. Thompson
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity. — Chogyam Trungpa
And when reality goes, sanity has no reason. — Alexander Gordon Smith
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational… — Robert Boswell
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. — Ashly Lorenzana
The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of… — Barbara Marciniak
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will… — Chris Hedges
In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. — Jemima Khan
I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced… — Thomas Merton
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning. — Michael D. Barnes

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