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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Unknown
Brainy
Insanity
Same Thing
Results
Over
Doing
Expecting
Same
Different
Again
Thing
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
Me
Hate
Insanity
Alcohol
Advocate
Always
Anyone
Worked
Violence
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity
Rare
Rule
Something
Individuals
Parties
Nations
Groups
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
Erwin McManus
Time
Loneliness
Me
Suffering
Insanity
Edge
Skin
Live
Despair
Easier
Bubble
Weight
Feel
Always
Getting
Human
Anything
Realize
Human Suffering
Right
The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
Eckhart Tolle
Ego
Strong
Insanity
Collective
More
Absolute
Point
Frequently
Personal
Dysfunction
Dysfunctional
Even
Element
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Laing
World
Insanity
Insane
Adjustment
Rational
Perfectly
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
Genius
Insanity
Fine
Fine Line
Between
Erased
Line
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch
Life
Death
Me
Sickness
Insanity
My Life
Followed
Angels
Throughout
Were
Surrounded
Cradle
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Mind
Insanity
Logic
Accurate
Often
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Cary Grant
Family
Insanity
Runs
Practically
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
You
Insanity
Somehow
Knowing
Idiotic
Still
Doing
Just
Stop
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
Me
Creativity
Insanity
Imagination
Super
Normal
Lack
Psychotic
Means
Sanity
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French
Love
You
Love Is
Yourself
Mind
Insanity
Power
Lose
Think
Ancient
Ancient Greeks
Rational
Knew
Delusion
Taking
Over
Self-Destruction
Well
Greeks
Straight
Lucid
Even
If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
Newt Gingrich
Saying
People
Result
Insanity
Same Thing
Public Schools
Our
Definition
Run
Over
Schools
Doing
Fit
Expecting
Same
Goes
Different
Public
Who
Popular
Description
Thing
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson
Alone
Guitar
Insanity
Stage
Heroism
Up
Bravery
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Requires
Stand
Stand Up
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
Genius
Insanity
Forms
Many
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
Lawrence Kudlow
Change
Insanity
Economics
Same Thing
Too
Definition
Fact
Results
Never
Over
Doing
Expecting
Same
Goes
Different
In Fact
Again
Thing
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch
Life
Death
Me
Insanity
My Life
Followed
Angels
Throughout
Attended
Since
Were
Disease
Cradle
Then
Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
Flula Borg
You
Strong
Sometimes
Insanity
Make
Exercise
Really
Your
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft
You
Together
People
Strong
Dark
Crime
Insanity
Feelings
Group
Religious
Deliberately
Practical
Bunch
Perversion
Expressed
Chosen
Guarantee
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen
Life
Death
You
Human Being
Dangerous
Insanity
Drive
Big
Meaning Of Life
Down
Unknowable
Paper
Mad
Life And Death
Between
Like
Most
Real
Hamlet
Subjects
Questions
Human
Difference
Being
Literally
Meaning
Meaning Of
Sanity
Ever
Things
Set
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
Patty Duke
Relationship
Insanity
About
Inspiration
Between
Human
Human Beings
Centuries
Beings
I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.
Richard C. Armitage
Insanity
Think
The Hardest Thing
Play
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Stephen F. Lynch
Insanity
Same Thing
Definition
Results
Tendency
Over
Am
Clinical
Expect
Same
Different
Again
Thing
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
Chuck Palahniuk
Behavior
Insanity
Eye Of The Beholder
Say
Eye
Status
Would
Status Quo
Fact
Any
Beholder
In Fact
Quo
Might
Actually
Interpreted
Enlightenment
Control your life through insanity.
Cliff Burton
Life
Insanity
Control
Through
Your
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