I was a disinterested student.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic…

— Michael Innes

“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends…

— Aristotle

“Emma knew that she'd always been on the wrong side of the line that separated her from her parents, from Patrick and Annie and…

— Jennifer E. Smith

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

— Elaine Dundy

“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own…

— Elizabeth Peters

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation,

— Karl Popper

For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves,…

— Anonymous

“eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.”

— Jeffery Deaver

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought…

— Matthew Arnold

Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into…

— Beatrice Webb

“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana