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Letter "N" » nonsense
«This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.»
«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.»
Author: Northrop Frye | Keywords: affords, ego, nonsense
«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.»
«The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong»
«Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense»
«Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.»
«There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.»
«There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action»
«The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God»
«The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.»

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