If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance… It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That's almost my name. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In other… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
