Nonsense Quotes

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

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Life And Love, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

  Lewis Carroll

  Would Be, World, My Own

  "Fictional character: Alice". "Alice in Wonderland", 1951.

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• It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophical, Writing, Talking

  1911 Introduction to Mathematics.

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• Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

  Bodhidharma

  Nature, Practice, Causes

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, North Point Press

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Common Sense, Nonsensical

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Thinking, Demise

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Mean, Science

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, History, Doctrine

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• Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

  Horace

  Littles, Now And Then, Folly

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• A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

  Horace Walpole

  Song, Doe, Littles

  Horace Walpole, Sir Horace Mann (1833). “Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany”, p.304

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• Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupidity, Desire, Way

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.117, Modern Library

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

  Roald Dahl

  Funny, Wisdom, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.84, Penguin

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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• Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Light, Shade, Effects

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• There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

  Joseph Addison

  School, Profound, Depth

  Joseph Addison (1853). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.624

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• The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Use

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

  Samuel Butler

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Home

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4349, Delphi Classics

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• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Brain, Intelligence

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song

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• There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Dangerous, Subjects

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.432, e-artnow

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• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspiration, Matter, Triviality

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

  E. M. Forster

  Beauty, Connections, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.223, Delphi Classics

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