Disinterested Quotes

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Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

I was a disinterested student.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

I'll just keep going till people get disinterested. It's what I was born to do and thankfully, people have shown an interest. I never do anything to be famous.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.