Best Nonsense Quotes
777 Nonsense quotes by 572 unique authors
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In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
— Cesar Chavez
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as…
— George Santayana
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I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory…
— Rick Perry
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
— Moliere
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Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware…
— Rajneesh
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they…
— Carl Sagan
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Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of…
— Jacques Maritain
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The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be…
— Penelope Lively
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
— Ted Nelson
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
— Jim Wallis
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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.…
— Rajneesh
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Surrender means seeing that "I am not separate" - just SEEING that "I am not separate." Nothing is surrendered, nothing is dropped; just a nonsense…
— Rajneesh
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When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
— Muhammad Ali
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There's too many people in the world.
— William Shatner
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or…
— Douglas Bader
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Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are…
— Bill Maher
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The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely…
— C.S. Lewis
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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
— Richard Dawkins
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It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because you have nothing…
— Rajneesh
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Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the total, but it…
— Rajneesh
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults…
— Rajneesh
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Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their…
— Joan Aiken
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