(252 quotes found)
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?”
Gene Wilder
“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
“That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.”
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things”
Anne Sullivan
“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
Willy Wonka
“Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.”
Douglas Adams
“The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
