Ross Douthat Quotes

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

Fools are not mad folks.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

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.'

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Many a man has been certified insane for less than the noble lord has done this afternoon.

Is Mr. [John Quincy] Adams demented, or is he perversely wicked? Both, I think, and Adams ought to be confined to a hospital.

When you choose a leader, follow him as a man, not as a god.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.