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the Definition of Insanity



Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a raise. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results means you're either insane or are making a New Year's resolution. ~@thedeadauthor, tweet, 2015


One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. But what do you call it if you do the same thing over and over, and keep achieving different results? Is that sanity? ~Harry Hurt III, "Is Anybody Necessary? Dr. Ying and the Four Noble Truths," New York Times, nytimes.com, 2006


The definition of insanity is quoting Einstein over and over and expecting to be thought to be clever each time. ~Dollarhide, hypercrit.net blog comment, 2013


Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~Anonymous, October 1981  [Many thanks to The Quote Investigator, Garson O'Toole, for his research on the quotation frequently misattributed to Albert Einstein: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." See: quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same —tg]


Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. ~Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet, November 1981  [Another find from The Quote Investigator. See: quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same —tg]


Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com





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