High Minded Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What… — Anton Chekhov
The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is… — Cal Thomas
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. — Charles Sumner
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction… — John Ciardi
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. — Wendell Willkie
I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results. — Paul McCartney
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
As for a limit to oneâ€™s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead… — Alexander the Great
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem… — Walter Darby Bannard
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug… — Hugh Jackman
I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded,… — Susan Orlean
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. — Jerry Saltz
'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're… — Rob Sheffield
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. — Bertrand Russell
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. — Aristotle
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. — Jim Harrison
Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus.… — Cornelia Funke
She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she… — A. S. Byatt
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. — Kurt Vonnegut
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in… — Barbara Mertz

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