Dispassionate Quotes
36 quotes by 35 authors
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
— James Buchan
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of…
— Galen Strawson
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However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our…
— Walter E. Williams
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It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the…
— Antonin Scalia
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
— Paul Di Filippo
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Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and…
— Rajneesh
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
— George Will
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
— Abraham Maslow
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
— Simon Newcomb
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It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the…
— Bob Lutz
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will…
— Maximus the Confessor
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The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the…
— Janet Malcolm
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The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for…
— Brian Koppelman
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Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity…
— Joseph Conrad
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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live…
— Victor J. Stenger
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God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious,…
— John Climacus
Who Wrote These Dispassionate Quotes
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