Top 22 Insanity Is Doing Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. For he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.
Stefan Grabinski
#5. I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.
Tommy Shaw
#6. Love is always a species of insanity. If
Kim Newman
#7. Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.
Jeanette Winterson
#8. Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
William Shakespeare
#9. If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
Newt Gingrich
#10. The definition of insanity is doing what you've always done and expecting different results.
Jane Green
#11. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
Brian Rock
#12. Insanity is when you keep doing something that does not work
Sunday Adelaja
#13. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
James Cook
#14. One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.
John Fund
#15. One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
#16. Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#18. You can grow up being a troublemaker and then before you know it the next thing you're doing is listening to Frank Zappa whilst chilling out ... now that's the intelligent way out. What would a psychiatrist say about that?
Stephen Richards
#19. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#20. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Narcotics Anonymous
#21. 17. To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.
Marcus Aurelius
#22. To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.
Robert G. Thompson
