No Nonsense Quotes

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

A goal without a method is nonsense.

Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.