#nonsense

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#talking-to-yourself #nonsense

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#nonsense

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology

Male or female, if my name were either Don or Dawn, I’d be up at sunrise to celebrate the glory that is me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebration #dawn #don #female #glory

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#before #fight #hitting #i #intimidate

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#being #believed #changed #considered #history

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. ↗

— Rick Wright

#dressed #i #lyrics #moore #nonsense

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good

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

— Edmond de Goncourt

#hears #more #museum #nonsense #perhaps

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#charge #claim #creationist #critics #evolution