“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Hedford had quickly proven herself disinterested in her experience, dismissing her contributions as being “stuck in a twenty-second-century mindset.” “So, you gonna” — William Leisner Copy Share Image
The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent… — Michael Innes Copy Share Image
The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
George W. Bush is a person who is totally disinterested in the world, uneducated. I'm not saying he's stupid. I don't think… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
“Emma knew that she'd always been on the wrong side of the line that separated her from her parents, from Patrick and… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
“The man who is alone, who stands on his own feet, who is stripped bare, who asks for nothing and wants nothing,… — Giovanni Papini Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“I was disinterested in everything, even in Ethan. Even, I was ashamed to admit, in Ella. I didn’t know where else I… — Leslie A. Gordon Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I began to be involved (with exercise). It was a little bit like sex sometimes - you know how sometimes you're kind… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling,… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested… — Alan Tower Waterman Copy Share Image
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart,… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
![“Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ee/aristotle-78_able_now-that-practical-skills-have-developed_114834.jpg)
