At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
I complained about the gimmicks. All the nonsense and garbage. After a while I just said I would not wrestle with the… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“How much nonsense can we take in our lives? And is there any way we can escape it? No, there is not.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Baruk looked up, then twisted in his chair to regard his guest, who was busy preening herself on his map-table. ‘Crone, the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of… — Albert Einstein 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
The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if I'm using four different… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this,… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
“he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
![“No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a15/stephen-jay-gould-885_common_no-more-harmful-nonsense-exists-than-the_2399638.jpg)
![“It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
![“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he]…” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ff/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_boys_i-like-my-boy-with-his-endless-sweet-sol_2801205.jpg)
![“Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.” quote by Robert Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/86d/robert-barron-13186_allies_again-i-hear-almost-everyday-from-atheis_35728.jpg)
