„Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.“

„It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.“

—  Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

„You are hurrying to the sweet place, to the nonsense chasing your spirit and in the nonsense you look for answers.“

—  Dejan Stojanovic, könyv Circling: 1978-1987

“The Circle,” p. 39
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Conversations with Atoms”

„If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough.“

—  Burt Rutan American aerospace engineer 1943

From article: Taylor, Chris (Nov. 29, 2004). The Sky's the Limit. Time Magazine, p. 67.

„I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.“

—  Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Forrás: The Importance of Being Earnest

„Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.“

—  Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s

„The little folk dare anything", said his friend. "And they talk a lot of nonsense. But they talks an awful lot of sense, as well. You listen to 'em at your peril, and you ignore 'em at your peril, too.“

—  Neil Gaiman, könyv Stardust

Stardust (1999)

„Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.“

—  Doris Lessing British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer 1919 - 2013

The Summer Before the Dark (1973)

„The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.“

—  Jim Harrison American novelist, poet, essayist 1937 - 2016

Forrás: The Beast God Forgot to Invent

„It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.“

—  Philip K. Dick, könyv VALIS

Forrás: VALIS (1981)

„No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.“

—  Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987

Introduction
One Minute Nonsense (1992)

„There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.“

—  George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950

Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Kontextus: There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done. Young women come to me and ask me whether I think they ought to consent to marry the man they have decided to live with; and they are perplexed and astonished when I, who am supposed (heaven knows why!) to have the most advanced views attainable on the subject, urge them on no account to compromise themselves without the security of an authentic wedding ring.

„He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.“

—  John McCarthy American computer scientist and cognitive scientist 1927 - 2011

PROGRESS AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ (1995 – )
1990s

„My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.“

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein, könyv Philosophical Investigations

§ 464
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

„It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.“

—  Sam Manekshaw First Field marshal of the Indian Army 1914 - 2008

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

„Pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, so you can pay attention to what really has your attention.“

—  David Allen American productivity consultant and author 1945

15 September 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/114341777418354689
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

„To have breakthroughs, you must have confidence in nonsense, okay? That's why only weird guys tend to have the breakthroughs: a sensible person won't have a breakthrough 'cause he writes it off real quickly as nonsense and, therefore, he doesn't ever do something that's nonsense.“

—  Burt Rutan American aerospace engineer 1943

"Inside the New Space Race," Space's Deepest Secrets (S2E17, first aired 5 September 2017, 9:07:01–9:07:19 PM EST).

„I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.“

—  Charles Dickens English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812 - 1870

Hunted Down http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/hntdn10.txt (1859)

„There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.“

—  Cassandra Clare, könyv Clockwork Angel

Forrás: Clockwork Angel

„You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.“

—  Carlos Ruiz Zafón, könyv The Shadow of the Wind

Forrás: The Shadow of the Wind