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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)

Nonsense is an assertion of man''s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. (Quote by - George)

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. (Quote by - George Santayana)

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. (Quote by - Anton Seidl)

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. (Quote by - Otto Schily)

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. (Quote by - Arthur Scargill)

From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero. Mittens with the fur-side inside, With the fur-side next his fingers So's to keep the hand warm inside. (Quote by - Rev. George Augustus Strong)

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. (Quote by - Jim Wallis)

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. (Quote by - Warren G. Bennis)

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. (Quote by - George Gallup)

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. (Quote by - John C. Ransom)

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. (Quote by - Hugh Grant)

To demand ''sense'' is the hallmark of nonsense; Nature does not make sense; Nothing makes sense (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense. (Quote by - Jim Bolger)

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. (Quote by - Robert Lee Frost)

For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonsense has been found By some to be the most profound. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1)

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. (Quote by - George Combe)

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. (Quote by - Evita Peron )

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. (Quote by - Roald Dahl)

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