Quotes About Nonsense Questions

#1. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are 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

#2. Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

Jessi Klein

#4. All your troubles are due to those 'ifs', declared the Wizard.

L. Frank Baum

#5. My name is Linus, and I am your God.

Linus Torvalds

#6. I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.

Li Keqiang

#7. The advance of our technology is coincidental with the loss of our appetite for ethical questions that ought to attend the implications of these new powers. . . In the name of diversity, any idea is regarded as worthy as any other; any nonsense is entitled to a forum, a full hearing, and equal time.

Thomas Lynch

#8. Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.

Rob Kardashian

#9. I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.

Andrew Weil

#10. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Anthony Biglan

#12. If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

Kurt Eichenwald

#13. Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

Napoleon Hill

#14. We were all born by accident but this wandering caravan
will make camp in perfection
Forget the nonsense categories of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination
You are soul, and you are love, ...
No more questions now as to what it is we're doing here

Coleman Barks

#15. From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

George Washington

#16. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

Anonymous

#17. Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting.

Serina Hartwell

#18. I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these questions about nudity. It's a nonsense. He's an actor, an artist, so get on with it.

Steve McQueen

#19. Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

Lili Taylor

#20. Charlie alone knew he was a ghost.

John Le Carre

#21. In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

Susan Cain

#22. Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein