Genius Insanity Quotes

#1. He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

Mike Judge

#2. I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

Allyson Felix

#3. The step between genius and insanity is very short.

Albert Einstein

#4. Genius and insanity were often separated only by the results. Unfortunately, sometimes it could take generations before you really saw the full scale of the results, and this was one of those times,

Evan Currie

#5. He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world's terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense.

Raymond Weaver

#6. There's a fine line between stuff, and if you stare at it long enough it'll drive you insane or to genius

Josh Stern

#7. If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Genius - the pursuit of madness.

Criss Jami

#9. As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels looked like torment and insanity, I collected some proverbs

William Blake

#10. What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Walter Scott

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

Seneca The Younger

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

Denis Diderot

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

Masashi Kishimoto

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

Ian Fleming

#15. Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

Lisi Harrison

#16. One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#18. There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

Aristotle.

#19. There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Dan Brown

#20. They are walking the line between genius and insanity.

Madeleine Roux

#21. A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?

Bill Bailey

#22. I believe I have moments of pure genius...the rest of them are all insanity.

Viveca Benoir

#23. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

Dan Brown

#24. Genius has its limitations.
Insanity ... not so much -Bumper Sticker

Darynda Jones

#25. There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

Leo Durocher

#26. Hotness and Genius have the same byproduct: Insanity

Josh Stern

#27. Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Cesare Lombroso

#28. My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.

Christopher Titus

#29. My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

Roman Payne

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

Bruce Feirstein

#31. There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity

Josh Stern

#32. And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

Jacqueline Winspear

#33. Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

Deb Caletti

#34. How slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

Richard Branson

#35. The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

#36. Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.

Carl Henegan

#37. Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is - and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

Harlan Coben

#38. I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

William Blake

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

Oscar Levant

#40. Genius is insanity right up until it works.

Forrest Griffin