Age Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

— Vernon Howard

“I think nonsense raises two human urges. One: to be playful, be curious and curiouser, and 2: to make meaning out what seems to…

— Ali Smith

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes…

— David Hume

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

— Mason Cooley

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

— Josh Billings

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 incredible how much intelligence is used to prove nonsense.

— Mrthrill

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people…

— Anonymous

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

— Anthony Burgess