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

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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• 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

  Science, People, Religion

  "Has the world changed?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2001.

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• This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Warrior, People, Enemy

  "This is not crime, this is war" by Charles Krauthammer, townhall.com. September 12, 2001.

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• The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Evolution, Nonsensical

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.33, Vintage

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• 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

  Art, Mean, Blow

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• If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

  Lewis Carroll

  Wise, Would Be, Wonderland

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

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• There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge And Power, Government, Majority

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• To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Appreciate

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

  Francis Crick

  Numbers, Lows, Triplet

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• Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

  Isaac Barrow

  Anecdotes, Kind, Poetry Is

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• It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.

  Craig David

  Stupid, People, Comedian

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

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Wells, Capable

  1711 In The Spectator, no.18.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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• 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, Honesty, Business

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clever, Book, Reading

  "Lothair".

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