A Quote by Ajahn Chah

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

Ajahn Chah

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Both Knows Madman Smile While Why

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Ajahn Chah
June 17, 1918 - January 16, 1992

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Aldous Huxley

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Publilius Syrus

Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

Miguel de Cervantes

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Samuel Richardson

The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.

Aleksandr Karelin

Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

Ajahn Chah

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Charles Bukowski

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

Tim Ward

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

Frederic Henry Hedge

So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.

Betty Sue Flowers

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

Samuel Johnson

Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.