David Rosenhan Quotes

The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

David Rosenhan

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• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Insanity

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Acting
  • Idea
  • Changing

• The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Impossible
  • Texas
  • Insanity

• In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • City
  • Short
  • Insanity

• Right now the only thing that I am concerned with in my life is being an artist … I had to suppress it for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Effort
  • Lies

• I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • People
  • Free
  • Single

• My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

  

  Clarice Taylor
  • Family
  • Education
  • Insanity

• Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Knowledge
  • Insanity

• I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Job
  • Community
  • Insanity

• When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Kitchen
  • Insanity

• Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.

  

  John Carpenter
  • Life
  • Live
  • Greed

• Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

  

  Ben Huh
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Depression

• Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

  

  David Shuster
  • Up
  • Lies
  • Insanity

• My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

  

  John Romaniello
  • Trying
  • Beautiful
  • Insanity

• Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Honor
  • Humor
  • Sanity

• From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Die
  • Care
  • Tea

• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Speaks
  • Afterwards

• The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Soul
  • Artist
  • Journey

• The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

  

  David Rosenhan
  • Insanity
  • Sanity
  • Distinguish