Top 159 Disinterested Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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

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

The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.

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

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.

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?

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'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

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

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.

Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

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.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

Global warming - utterly disinterested in our political paralysis - worsens at a terrifying pace.

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.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

I was a disinterested student.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

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

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

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

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

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

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.

Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.

If you're deeply engaged in an event, you're part of it. But if you're outside of it, disinterested, you are the regard that registers history. And that disinterestedness is different from objectivity. The objective view sees only the event, while the disinterested one participates as well as views by creating that link to history. It's a type of viewing that's both inside and out of the event, that brings to the viewing the capacity for human emotion, for compassion, but holds it openly. And objectivity excludes the human element, and is therefore not a point of view open to humans.

The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

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

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.

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.

Fans are more interested in imagining relationships between a myriad of pairings. But they're profoundly disinterested in seeing any of those things manifest themselves on the show.

Modern audiences are so intelligent. They work at such a fast pace that if you don't give enough stimulus at a breakneck speed, they will become disinterested.

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

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

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

There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something much more interesting than everybody else if you are this disinterested. The other is to be extremely interested. You are not trying to please anyone, but you are really invested are really focused.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

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

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

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