Quotes & Sayings About Intelligence And Insanity

They were now their own unavoidable experiment, and were making themselves into many things they had never been before: augmented, multi-sexed, and most importantly, very long-lived, the oldest at that point being around two hundred years old. But not one whit wiser, or even more intelligent. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since, dogs when we had been wolves. But also, despite that individual diminuation, finding ways to accumulate knowledge and power, compiling records, also techniques, practices, sciences
possibly smarter therefore as a species than as individuals, but prone to insanity either way ... — Kim Stanley Robinson

It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war. — Debasish Mridha

Live at the verge of insanity, be wild.
Life is too precious to be so tame and mild. — Debasish Mridha

Intelligence resembles insanity only on the stupid. — Harry Harrison

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane? — Tim Horvath

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world. — Charles Kettering

...to Humans free will is essential to growth as an individual while to an artificial intelligence free will is much like a type of insanity. — Randolph Lalonde

He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe. — Remy De Gourmont

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

He should call it Oronzi's Law: Any sufficiently-advanced intelligence will be indistinguishable from insanity. — David Walton

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity. — Richard Kadrey

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms — Guy De Maupassant

Insanity is expecting without giving. — Debasish Mridha

I am drunk with the beauty of life, I am at the verge of insanity. Every moment is a pearl of my life, so I have to enjoy every one of them. — Debasish Mridha

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Politics doesn't require talent, intelligence, or good looks. Truly, someone like Donald Rumsfeld, a mediocre government functionary with no discernible talent, intelligence, or charm, is a greater international celebrity than Mick Jagger. Rumsfeld, despite being a has-been, is known in every corner of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa for his insanity and arrogance, while Jagger is admired by a mere couple hundred million music enthusiasts, huddled mostly in the First World. — Ian F. Svenonius