Bruce Cockburn Quotes

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Fools are not mad folks.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

I know I look crazy, but I am not!

Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.

I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.