Unconcerned Quotes:

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

topic: Warrior, Courageous, Unconcerned

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.115, Courier Corporation

topic: Morality, Action, Unconcerned

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Rumor, Alive, Lasts, I Am Alive, Unconcerned

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.330, A&C Black

topic: Behavior, Messy, Unpredictable, Human Behavior, Unconcerned

Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

topic: Letting Go, Real, Eye, Just Let Go, Unconcerned

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

topic: Men, Opportunity, Race, Unawareness, Emancipation Proclamation

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

- Iris Murdoch

source: "The Nice And The Good".

topic: Happiness, Happy, Gratitude, Inner Happiness, Secret To Happiness

I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.

- Dorothea Dix

source: "Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts". Book by Dorothea L. Dix, 1843.

topic: Strong, Real, Men, Unconcerned

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Trying, Arrogant, Combat, Wording, Readership

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Sex, Writing, Creative, Unconcerned

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

- Wendell Berry

topic: May, Urban, Farming, Proxy, Food Production

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Kings, Regard, Kingship, Unconcerned

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers, §5., 1886.

topic: Real, Philosophy, Inspiration, Dialectics, Not Honest

When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.

- Linji Yixuan

topic: Wise, Lying, Tired, Ordinary Life, Unconcerned

Donald Trump seems to be unconcerned about the Russian aggression in Ukraine. By doing this he tells them that they can go ahead and do what they are doing. That is dangerous.

- Paul Wolfowitz

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Ukraine, Trump, Dangerous, Unconcerned

If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Baby, Years, America, Unconcerned

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

- Simone Weil

topic: Opportunity, Civilization, Firsts, Unconcerned

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

- Antonin Scalia

topic: Religious, Atheist, Practice, Establishment Clause, Acknowledgment

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

- Laozi

source: Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

topic: Friendship, Men, Honor, Friends And Enemies, Tao Te Ching Leadership

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

- Helen Keller

topic: Relationship, Self Esteem, Science, Indifference And Apathy, Two Evils

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.

- Mary Oliver

topic: Talking, Tree, Doubt, Oak Tree, No Doubt

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Selfish, Joy, Lifeless, Unconcerned

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

- Christopher Alexander

topic: Mistake, Simple, Differences, Carpenter, Unconcerned

Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.

- Kenneth Turan

topic: Death, Player, Action, Equalizer, Unconcerned

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.226, Macmillan

topic: Real, Nice, People, Canopy, Fetish

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.  I am quite sincere about some of the things that people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which most people take seriously.  In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Antisocial, Unconcerned

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

- Robert Adams

topic: Photography, Jobs, Views, Catalogues, Unconcerned

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: World, Eternity, Taxes, Unconcerned

This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.

- Edgar Lee Masters

topic: Eye, Men, Hands, Being Old, Futility Of Life

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Horse, Kings, Government, Darius, Electoral Process

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

source: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

topic: Wisdom, Justice, Triumph, Infertility, Lawfulness

When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

- Charles Grandison Finney

source: Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.22

topic: Stupid, Night, Fire, Unconcerned

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

topic: Disappointment, Serenity, Poetry, Unconcerned

Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: People, Sage, Found, Kind People, Censure

You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned them indirectly through BPL. I think about them as businesses, not "stocks", and if the business does all right over the long term, so will the stock.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Thinking, Long, Doe, Short Term, Unconcerned

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

- George Santayana

source: George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

topic: Children, Memories, Husband, Vicarious, Unconcerned

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

- Billy Graham

topic: World, Spirals, Jonah, My Heart Aches, Unconcerned

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Shining, Police, Purpose, Unconcerned

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Self, Care, Grooming, Unconcerned

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

- Joseph Addison

source: Translation of Horace Odes bk. 3, ode 3.

topic: Nature, Fall, Confusion, Unconcerned

... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.

- Jean Webster

topic: Running, Fall, Heart, Unconcerned

You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is nearly always portrayed wrapped in roses. If that were not enough, her faces confirms her identity." "You cannot tell a goddess from a face carved in marble," she scoffed. "You can tell Voluptas by her face." "I've never even heard of this goddess, and you know what she looks like?" "She is the goddess of sensual pleasure." Isabel's mouth fell open at the words. She could not think of a single thing to say in response. "Oh

- Sarah MacLean

topic: Thinking, Rose, Sensual, Sensual Pleasure, Unconcerned

Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.

- Gena Showalter

topic: Warrior, Forgive Me, Forgiving, Unconcerned, Noticing You

I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hate, Eye, Light, Unconcerned

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

- Rube Foster

topic: Baseball, Two, Worry, Unconcerned

Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise - the traffic in the head. So many thoughts - trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.

- Rajneesh

topic: Crazy, Airplane, Thinking, Inside And Outside, Aloof

The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.

- H. W. L. Poonja

source: H. W. L. Poonja (2000). “This: Prose and Poetry of Dancing Emptiness”, p.51, Weiser Books

topic: Home, Understanding, Quiet, Unconcerned

Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

- Ernst Haeckel

source: Ernst Haeckel (1887). “The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular”

topic: Art, Blessed, Knowledge, Tree Of Knowledge, Unconcerned

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Hope, Mean, Imagination, Unconcerned