Aloofness Quotes

• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, India, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

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• Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Country, Strong, Heaven

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

  Austin O'Malley

  Beauty, Quality, Essentials

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• The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Influential, Approach

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Inspirational, Mediocrity, Dignity

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• There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

  Frederick Soddy

  Sublime, Indifference, Environment

  Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Rise Above, Well Known, Life Altering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.51, Beacon Press

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• A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

  Zicheng Hong

  Gratitude, Joy, Taoism

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• No guy is ever gonna be like, 'Well, I'm not into her because she just doesn't seem into me!' That's never been a complaint for why a guy doesn't like a girl. Ever! That's an attractive thing, so always err on the side of aloofness.

  Nikki Glaser

  Girl, Attractive Things, Guy

  "The Ladies Of Nikki & Sara Live Dish On Confidence & Awkward, Uhh, Pauses". Interview with Carlye Wisel, www.refinery29.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Veganism can resurrect Eden and create heaven on Earth. We can have a place where humans view animals in awe, and animals view humans with a curious aloofness.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Views, Eden

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Intellectual Arrogance

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• It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Past, People, Community

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.88, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

  Jerome Frank

  Impression, Remove

  Jerome Frank (1973). “Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Spiritual, Quests, Privilege

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

  Marie Corelli

  Animal, Giving, Special

  Marie Corelli (2016). “Innocent”, p.391, Marie Corelli

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• Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Race, Two, Territory

  Letter to James F. Morton (January 1931), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 253), 1971.

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• To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Light, Views, Civilization

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

  John Dewey

  Art, Philosophy, Divorce

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• I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

  Rachel Hartman

  Cat, People, Way

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.7, Random House

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• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

  David Whyte

  Bird, Waiting, Cooking

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.51, Penguin

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• [Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the individual is a reality and only the individual is true. Maybe the process of isolation in an individual is one of the most important matters that exists. Is not the whole point of this world for people to separate and become individuals?

  Mati Unt

  Reality, People, Solitude

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• The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Grief, Men

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