~ Albert Einstein
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Excellent!!
Not Einstein. Or Franklin, for that matter.
Both men would have probably understood that there are different forms of “insanity” and to reduce a massive psychological concept down to a single blurb is just idiotic.
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“One definition of insanity is to do the same thing, day-after-day, expecting different results”
- Mark Silber
“The very definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.” - - Philip Mangano
“Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and
expecting a different outcome”
- Old Chinese Proverb
I found several others, attributed to different authors, probably none of which are true.
actually, to continue -> I found this on AnswerBag by an anonymous poster.
“I think the quote really comes from a play written in 1681, by John Dryden, called the Spanish Friar…In Act II, st. 1…”Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ”
I haven’t found an online copy to verify though.
so basically you just defined insanity there bub! Can you say doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?! …….. if your lost, then you are.
The anonymous poster who identified the quote as coming from The Spanish Friar is, I think, wrong. I read through Act II, scene 1, of The Spanish Friar, and the quote (or anything like it, including the words “insanity”, “madness”, and the phrase “doing the same”) is nowhere to be found in the collected works of John Dryden. The quote doesn’t sound like anything Dryden would have written. I have never seen an attribution of this wonderful quote complete with a real citation. I sure would like to.