Top 27 Quotes About Madness And Intelligence
#1. There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.
Kameron Hurley
#3. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
#4. [A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp ... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
William Mathews
#5. There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.
Christopher Hitchens
#6. It's good to have fresh ingredients, but let's not completely ignore some frozen ingredients. Vegetables are absolutely brilliant because as soon as they come out of the ground they are prepared and frozen instantly.
Ainsley Harriott
#7. Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred De Musset
#8. Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
#9. There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
Rumi
#10. I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.
Michael Grimm
#11. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.
Joe Biden
#12. With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!
Rodney Dangerfield
#14. I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
Cynthia Nixon
#15. Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
Zhou Weihui
#16. Chances are, no one is trying to kill you at your current job. If they are, please read a book on Krav Maga, not this one.
Jon Acuff
#17. There's beauty in selflessness. There's honor in putting aside your fears to make sure the ones you love are taken care of.
Cassia Leo
#18. It takes a shock to the system, doesn't it, to make a man realize what good things he has.
Graham Moore
#20. Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
Karen Russell
#21. But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could see she felt enlarged by drama and trouble, by the electric pulse of things going wrong, and her vision of the easy life remained in most ways a recurring dream.
Andrew O'Hagan
#22. Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.
Marguerite Duras
#23. There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.
Stan Lee
#24. A little madness shows the way to happiness.
A little kindness can heal the sadness.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)
Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."
(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,
It is better to remain an ignorant one.)
Jalaluddin Rumi
#26. Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.
George F. Will
