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The jurist from the Hoosier State subscribes to Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.”
An image shared on Facebook claims that theoretical physicist Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Verdict: False. There is no evidence that Einstein ever said this. Fact Check:
According to Merriam-Webster, the actual definition of insanity is “a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder.” Accurate, but not quite...
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That witticism—I’ll call it “Einstein Insanity”—is usually attributed to Albert Einstein.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” A favorite of politicians (and pretty much everybody else), this...
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,” for instance, was traced by Einstein archivist Barbara Wolff to US writer...
The “definition of insanity” quote first appeared in 1981, in a document published by Narcotics Anonymous. It was a sort of guide book for addicts who trying to overcome their disease, and it warned its readers that, “insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”