In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match…

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather…

— Georgette Heyer

“Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, “deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it…

— Ralph Keyes

“Orafoura told me my writing is all nonsense. “Nonsense,” I replied. “Glad you agree, “ he said.”

— Jarod Kintz

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

— Ambrose Bierce

“A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.”

— David Almond

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

— Mason Cooley

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

— Walter Bagehot

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through…

— Charles Lindbergh

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

— Kenneth Grant

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the…

— Oliver Sacks

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs…

— Frank H. T. Rhodes

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled…

— Paul Smith