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Definition of Sanity

Sanity

The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

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Sanity Quotations

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm

Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Norman Mailer

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
Tony Blair

Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Robert Southey

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
Dixie Lee Ray

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
Irving Babbitt

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.
Mary Tyler Moore

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Paul Ryan

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Studs Terkel

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
James MacArthur

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Nellie Bly

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
George Weinberg

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
Nellie Bly

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
Ronald Fisher

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
Rachel McAdams

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.
Blythe Danner

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
Michael D. Barnes

I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.
Kiri Te Kanawa

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.
Judge Reinhold

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
Diahann Carroll

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Sanity Translations

sanity in German is Vernunft, Verstand
sanity in Italian is ragione
sanity in Latin is sanitas
sanity in Spanish is cordura

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