Interest Quotes

5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity… — James Hutton
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it… — Grove Karl Gilbert
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means… — Mary Everest Boole
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it.… — J. B. Priestley
To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on responsibility yourself. It's not enough… — Jackie Huggins
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. — Albert Barnes
When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are… — Wes Jackson
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,… — Pat Condell
In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense. — Paul Craig Roberts
People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those… — George Leef
...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C. — Bill Moyers
Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot… — J. Reuben Clark
Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a… — Unknown Author
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as… — John Fowles
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people who have no… — Michael Lerner
The secret to enjoying life is to take an interest in it. — Thomas Troward

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