Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

the possession of power brings on madness.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The universe without music would be madness.

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

To expect an impossibility is madness.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid; "it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.