High Minded Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What…
— Anton Chekhov
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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
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
— Charles Sumner
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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
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
— Wendell Willkie
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
— Paul McCartney
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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
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As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead…
— Alexander the Great
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
— Bertrand Russell
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
— Aristotle
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Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
— Jim Harrison
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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
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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
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I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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
Who Wrote These High Minded Quotes
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