Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid. — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. — Henry David Thoreau 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
Fans are more interested in imagining relationships between a myriad of pairings. But they're profoundly disinterested in seeing any of those things… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an… — Yves Saint Laurent 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
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
Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert… — Freya Stark 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
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq 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
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
“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 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
'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
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