(249 quotes found)
“A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men”
Willy Wonka
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?”
Gene Wilder
“nonsense environment.”
Janis Joplin
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
Jean Kerr
“Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number”
Stephen Jay Gould
“The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.”
Northrop Frye
“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning”
Oliver Goldsmith
“That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.”
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
“Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.”
Ann Coulter
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