Unconventional Thought Quotes

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

I think my brain just has a natural way of going to what would be the most insane thing, the least likely option.

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.