Crazy People Quotes

• The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

  Stephen Hawking

  Crazy, Smart, People

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• The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy.

  Jim Jefferies

  Crazy, People, Knows

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• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Bipolar, Insane

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

  Walter Isaacson

  Change, Success, Meaningful

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

  Karen E. Quinones Miller

  Life, Crazy, People

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Crazy, People

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• Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.

  Paulo Coelho

  Crazy, People, Crazy Things

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• Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand.

  Seungsahn

  Crazy, Attachment, People

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• The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crazy, Stupid, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.98, Anchor

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• Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

  Weihui Zhou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Nuts, People

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012

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• Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Insane, Novelists

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• Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Crazy, Ocean, Feet

  Michael J. Gelb (2014). “Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius”, p.90, Sounds True

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• Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Crazy, Nuts, People

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• I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.

  Marco Pantani

  Mad, Extinction, Being Crazy

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• Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• It's not easy being the sane one!

  Charmaine

  Easy, Sane

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• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

  "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966.

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• Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

  Lenore Skenazy

  Crazy, People, Trust Others

  Lenore Skenazy (2009). “Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

  Zadie Smith

  Crazy, People, Lasts

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.327, Vintage

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• If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.

  Maxine Waters

  Crazy, Stupid, People

  "Was It a 'Riot,' a 'Disturbance' or a 'Rebellion'?" by Swati Pandey, www.latimes.com. April 29, 2007.

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• You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. “They said that about all the great visionaries.” “You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Crazy, School, Class

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