A Quote by Bergen Evans

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Bergen Evans

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Cynicism Madness Stoicism Wisdom

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Bergen Evans
September 19, 1904 - February 4, 1978

Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

Luce Irigaray

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Paulo Coelho

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Willie Nelson

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Saul Bellow

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Mason Cooley

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

George R. R. Martin

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Hermann Hesse

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

Joseph Heller

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad