quotes about Dispassionate

last updated: November 28, 2023

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached ...
-- Kim Chernin

Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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“The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.”
“The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.”
“I like somebody a lot, let me just put it like that.”
“Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...”

Source : "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.
“Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.”
“The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.”
“A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.”
“I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.”
“No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.”