Insanity And Genius Quotes

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Success, Differences, Insanity

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Intelligent, Men, Mad

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

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• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Funny, Life

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

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

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

  Antonin Artaud

  Depression, Ideas, Delirium Tremens

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

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

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Senior, Witty

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

  Bruce Feirstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Crazy, Party

  Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

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

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

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Insanity, Genius, Lines

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• There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

  Dan Brown

  Insanity, Genius, Lines

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.179, Random House

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• The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Space, Insanity, Genius

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• Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, Insanity, Genius

  Nikki Giovanni (1983). “Those who ride the night winds”, William Morrow & Co

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