Sanity Quotes - Page 4

• Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have
  said.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Important, Guarantees

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• Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

  Robert McNamara

  United States, Should, Conscience

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The essence of security: reflections in office”

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• The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

  James Thurber

  Sleep, Average, Two

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Insanity, Balance, Psychological

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• If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Insanity, Idiot, Lost

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.476, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  Irving Babbitt

  Unity, Mind, Balance

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.

  John Ensign

  Children, Debt, Levels

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• Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.

  Michael Rasmussen

  Real, Supernatural Elements, Play

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

  Diahann Carroll

  Distance, Holding On, Difficult

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• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Real, Anger, Society

  "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

  Herman Melville

  Health, Color, Differences

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

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• I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Crazy, Wind, Mad

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [405]

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Intelligence

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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

  Diane Ackerman

  Knowing, Mind, Wrecks

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• Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

  Georges Bataille

  Mind, Equilibrium, Endure

  Georges Bataille (1983). “L'abbé C: A Novel”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

  Heinrich Heine

  Stupid, Bipolar, Insane

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• Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

  Diogenes

  Men, Mad, Insanity

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• Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doe, Moral, Ifs

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• Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Voiceless, Safe

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1973). “The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement”

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• I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

  Stephen King

  Funny, House, Be Prepared

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• I don't really trust a sane person.

  Lyle Alzado

  Trust, Sane, Persons

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

  Marguerite Duras

  Passion, Sadness, Source

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.54, Pantheon

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• Sanity is not statistical.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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