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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.
— George Herbert Mead
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.
— Matthew Arnold
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?
— Upton Sinclair
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.
— Richard Dawkins
She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or disinterested attachment anywhere,
— Jane Austen
Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
— Vincent De Paul
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
— Henry David Thoreau
eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested.
— Jeffery Deaver
The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.
— Pope Francis
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
— Bertrand Russell
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
— Joseph Joubert
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
— Therese Of Lisieux
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
— Julien Benda
We made love like green is blue. That's because we were only half into it, though for the record I was the blue and she was the disinterested yellow.
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.
— Todd McFarlane
I was a disinterested student.
— David Fincher
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
— Woodrow Wilson
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
— Samuel Adams
First and Second Kings are not disinterested, flat historical works...They stress God's sovereignty over Israel and all other nations.
— Paul R. House
For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...
— Elizabeth Peters
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
— Matthew Kelly
Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
— D.H. Lawrence
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
— Richard Gere
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.
— Alexander Pope
There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.
— G.K. Chesterton
The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
— Albert J. Nock
Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)
— Piero Ferrucci
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.
— David Ault
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
— Frank Langella
Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.
— David Berlinski
