Quotes of Sane - somelinesforyou

“ Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers. ”

- Jerome Wiesner

“ What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational. ”

- Georg Hegel

“ I always try to believe the best of everybody — it saves so much trouble. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ”

- Henry Miller

“ The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane. ”

- Joe Orton

“ I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank. ”

- Martin Mayer

“ National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. ”

- J. F. C. Fuller

“ We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ”

- John Updike

“ I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“ No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ”

- Karl Marx

“ The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh? ”

- Oleg Kiselev

“ It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera. ”

- Leonardo DiCaprio

“ There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ Wise business management, and more particularly what is spoken of as safe and sane business management … reduces itself in the main to a sagacious use of sabotage. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. ”

- Anatole France

“ We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body. ”

- Juvenal

“ Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble. ”

- Angelina Jolie

“ The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft

“ To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. ”

- Colin Firth

“ I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. ”

- Bill Gates

“ No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. ”

- Titus Livius

“ I think this is a reasonable conclusion. ”

- Patrick Leahy

“ I think this is a good example of the township taking a proactive stance rather than reaction,... I think this is an excellent example of what we should be doing to take the township into the future. ”

- Perry Miller
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