Interest Quotes & Sayings
These interest quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success. - Matthew Arnold
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so, Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency-the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. - Stephen Jay Gould
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. - Antoine De Rivarol
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. - Daniel Webster
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. - Benjamin Franklin
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. - Ernst Friedrich 'Fritz' Schumacher
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. - George Bernard Shaw
Discovering the Church is apt to be a slow procedure but it can take place if you have a free mind and no vested interest in disbelief. - Flannery O'Connor