Talking Nonsense Quotes

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

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Common Sense, Nonsense

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

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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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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  "The Works of Charles Lamb".

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• 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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Talking, Privilege, Nonsense

  "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.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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• Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Talking, Privilege

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866.

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• Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Night, Talking, Your Side

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• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Talking, Heaven, Attention

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.

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• Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

  William Pitt

  Men, Able, Nonsense

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• Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

  Michael Foley

  Depressing, Jobs, Hate

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• 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

  Mother, Tired, Boys

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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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• The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

  E. W. Howe

  Freedom, Talking, Nonsense

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

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Talking, America

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• It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mother, Baby, Tired

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• We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.

  Hermann Bondi

  Talking, Definitions, Way

  Hermann Bondi (1980). “Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of hate. Go to the preachers and they will say, "Try to love." They are talking nonsense because how can a person who is full of hate try to love? If he tries to love, this love will come out of hatred; it will be poisoned already, poisoned from the very source. And this is what the misery of all preachers is.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Hate, Talking

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• Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Talking, Two

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.315, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

  Herbert McCabe

  Talking, Discipline, Nonsense

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• I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?

  Tony Blackburn

  Love Is, Talking, People

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

  Samuel Butler

  Science, Talking, Law

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

  David Small

  Simple, Talking, Leader

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