Quotes about Sanity
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
— William Wordsworth
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But no matter what is going on, there has to be something ultimately at stake. A prize, survival, sanity, success, even peace of mind.
— Patrick Lencioni
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
— Virginia Woolf
Hope for sexual sanity is found only in one place: at the foot of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Paul David Tripp
At the same time my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor returned to me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored to my throne, and surpassing greatness was added to me.
— Daniel 4:36
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
— Nikki Giovanni
When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'
— Francis Chan
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
— Daniel 4:34