Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump attacks the trade deals, which have helped to gut the American working class, it's very powerful, even though his… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself… — Ernest Chapman Copy Share Image
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There is nothing better than standing at a bar, talking nonsense, while sipping a pint of real ale. Give me a pub… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the… — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray?… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine -… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
