Genius And Madness Quotes:

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Genius, Madness, Genius And Madness

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Self, Great Minds, Insanity And Genius

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Men, Genius, Madness, Genius And Madness, Statues

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Different, Genius, World, Genius And Madness

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

- Masashi Kishimoto

topic: Differences, Insanity, Genius, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Depression, Spring, Science, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

- Aristotle

topic: Funny, Creativity, Ideas, Genius And Madness

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Depression, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Clever, Insane World, Insanity And Genius

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Forgiveness, Letting Go, Book, Genius And Madness

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

- Bruce Feirstein

source: "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

- Peter J. Carroll

topic: Beautiful, Creativity, Mean, Connotation, Terminology

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

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

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Animi Tranquillitate, XV. 10, 1922.

topic: Insanity, Genius, Spices, Genius And Madness

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Life, Philosophical, Insanity And Sanity, Perfect Love

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

- John Dryden

source: 'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150

topic: Literature, Madness, Wit, Genius And Madness, Partition

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4

topic: Depression, Crazy, Party, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Communication, Thoughtful, Silence, Incompleteness, Genius And Madness

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

- Aberjhani

topic: Reality, Dancing, Quality, Genius And Madness

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Making A Living, Software Design

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

- Mackenzie Phillips

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

topic: Insanity, Genius, Lines, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Anon, Insanity And Genius

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Art, Freedom, Teaching, Genius And Madness

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Genius, Madness, Obsession, Wellspring, Genius And Madness

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.

- Paul Burch

topic: Music, Home, Artist, Fountain Of Youth, Genius And Madness