Crackpots Quotes

#1. Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

Edward Abbey

#2. Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Steve Sheinkin

#3. I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

Delmore Schwartz

#4. Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

Scott Adams

#5. A lot of professionals are crackpots.

Jenny Holzer

#6. My family isn't like yours," he says. "Well, I certainly hope not. We can't all be dreamers and crackpots, you know.

Lyla Payne

#7. Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

Kristin Cashore

#8. Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.

Tom Shales

#9. Nutrition ... has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly ...

Adelle Davis

#10. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hanna Arendt

#11. The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

Trevor Baylis

#12. Alas, some of those crackpots will only be eliminated by something lethal, such as a firing squad. The best we can do unless you want to invoke such lethal force is the segregation - the quarantine, perhaps - of those that pollute the hive mind with their irrational gibberings

Andrew Williams

#13. Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Harry S. Truman

#14. All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

Irving Stone

#15. The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

Joey Bishop

#16. I told my students that the greatest liability they will have is old saints who never matured,

Neil T. Anderson

#17. He paused in his gyrations to give Schwartz a high five. "I'm wearing my cap askew," [Owen] said.

Chad Harbach

#18. The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman. At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.

Justin Welby

#19. I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."
Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life.

Amanda Bouchet

#20. President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.

Ben Shapiro

#21. Jesus was a crackpot.

Rajneesh

#22. Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

Benjamin Franklin

#23. Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect.

Marty Rubin

#24. But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

John Eldredge

#25. Without an error of reasoning, there should be no doubt that each of us needs to be loved.

Auliq Ice

#26. After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

Niall Ferguson

#27. Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,

Wilfrid Laurier

#28. Buying, possessing, accumulating
this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount
doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion
doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

Robert Herrick

#29. Is it not true that each superpower has enough nuclear weapons to kill all members of mankind several times over? Yes. And the same is true of kitchen knives.

Petr Beckmann