Nonsense Quotes - Page 4

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

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.

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.

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

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

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.