Best Disinterested Sayings

74 Disinterested quotes by 70 unique authors

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a… — Thomas Hardy
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to… — Robert Hughes
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination.… — Stephen Hawking
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest. — Robert A. Heinlein
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not… — John Fowles
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not… — C.S. Lewis
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly
There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are… — Stephen Fry
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon… — Leon Trotsky
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can… — Rabindranath Tagore
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of… — H.G. Wells
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. — G. M. Trevelyan
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human… — John Strachan
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that… — John Sherman Cooper
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. — George Herbert Mead
A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery — Bertrand Russell
Demoralized people are disinterested in the truth and in humanity. They are starved for superficial entertainment or any demagoguery that would help them escape from… — Rev Richard Skaff
Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there… — Virginia Woolf

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