All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.
The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. . . . it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick. ' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic
Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.
