Average Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

— James Beattie

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge,…

— Anonymous

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other…

— Mark Helprin

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

— Dennis Hopper

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or…

— James Joyce

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in…

— Agatha Christie

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

— Isadora Duncan

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce...in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective…

— William James

“mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all…

— Novalis