Unorthodox Ideas Quotes

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

I was probably the only revolutionary ever referred to as "cute.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

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

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

In today’s Washington, with its emphasis on orthodox thinking, such a person could never rise inside the government … This is a great loss, because, as the life of George F. Kennan shows, individual, original thinking by one lonely person can sometimes illuminate and guide us better than all the high-level panels, commissions and interagency meetings.

Proper stupidity is fascinating.

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

I've been called crazy many times before.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

On 'Avatar', I learned that it's worth taking some risks and doing some weird little things with characters or having an off-joke here and there, even if it's only for 5 percent of the audience.