A Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
No one knows the future. I may attend someone's party today who may become an underworld don tomorrow, so how can I be blamed?
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.
Heaven forbids that man should know
What change tomorrow's fate may bring.
May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
Live, laugh, love, every day to it's fullest, for who knows, tomorrow, may not be.
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
I'm open to anyone who can or has demonstrated that they can effectively market and distribute with the best. It wouldn't hurt if they could put up with my nonsense too.
Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.
The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!
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