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Interest Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as…
- By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to…
- The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest…
- The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which…
- These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second…
- Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
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- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there… — David Attenborough
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr
- I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like… — Alec Baldwin
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale