Nonsense Quotes

• 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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• 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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• The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Politics

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

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Forgive Me

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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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• 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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• Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox and The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Christian Bale

  Commitment, People, Insanity

  "A Nice Quiet Chat with Christian Bale" by Andrew Corsello, www.gq.com. April 30, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Views, Doe

  "The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics". Book by Gary Zukav, March, 1979.

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