Indifferent Quotes

467 Indifferent quotes by 377 unique authors

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. — Ninette de Valois
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then… — Saadi
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series… — Joseph Addison
A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely,… — Rachel Naomi Remen
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends,… — Plutarch
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out… — Learned Hand
It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended. — Timothy Keller
The worst sin... is... to be indifferent. — George Bernard Shaw
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it… — Walter Lippmann
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe)… — William James
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it… — Marcel Proust
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of… — William Hazlitt
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. — George Steiner
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or… — Fay Weldon
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees.… — Remy de Gourmont
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held… — Israel Shenker

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