Isaac Newton Quotes

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I think everybody's nuts.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Mad is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

Economic theory does not work with human beings. We are far too messy.

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.

Insanity is contagious.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.