Nonsense Quotes

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

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

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

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.

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

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

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

Exported revolution is nonsense.

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

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

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.