Nonsense Quotes

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

Life, End, Laugh

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Patriotism, Hate, Violence

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Friendship, Time

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost

Forgive, Sense, Talk

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama

Power, Belief, Miracle

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

God, Ask, Quite

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Thought, Dangerous

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Trust, Men, Bad

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Mike Tyson

Fight, Before, Try

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan

Religion, Science, Deep

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Men, Children

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

Mind, Wrong, Sense

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

Work, Give, Through

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins

Religion, Thought, Might

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Thought, Put, Far

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot

Good, Friends, Sometimes

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli

Books, Clever, Existing

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan

Sense, Far, Common

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler

Home, Others, Greater

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana

Good, Sense, Common

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb

Friendship, Talk, Her

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison

Music, Nothing, Capable

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht

Best, Fun, Yourself

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma

Practice, Buddhas

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy

Talk, Doomed, Arithmetic

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus Hare

Happy, Mother, Tired

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.
Marat Safin

Life, Nothing, Person

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
Benjamin Britten

Night, Old, Write

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