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Talking Nonsense Quotes

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human Fyodor Dostoevsky
Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. Fyodor Dostoevsky
you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's way is better than... Fyodor Dostoevsky
" You think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth." --Crime and punishment, F. Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Pitt quote: "Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense;..."
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? William Pitt
Charles Lamb quote: "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have..."
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But..."
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Charles Lamb quote: "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her..."
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
Seeing him brought in, has, I think, saved me from losing my mind; for that I do not thank him-sanity, after all is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it. This decision to discard reason, I see now, is not the last but the first reasonable act; and this insanity we are taught to fear consists in nothing but responding naturally and... Gene Wolfe
Victor Hugo quote: "All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense."
All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense. Victor Hugo
Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism. Aldous Huxley
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I have no wish to talk nonsense."If you did, it would be in..."
I have no wish to talk nonsense."If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. Charlotte Bronte
Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the advantage of culture is that it enables you to talk nonsense with distinction, so the habit of luxury allows you to regard its frills and furbelows with a proper contumely.[Giulia Lazzari] W. Somerset Maugham
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. Martin Luther

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