We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be. — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly 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
The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington 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
That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with… — Michael Crichton 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
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting. — John Lennon 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
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
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
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
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
