Indifference

Indifference may refer to:

  • Indifference (emotion) or apathy, a psychological attitude
  • "Indifference" (Law & Order), an episode of Law & Order
  • Indifference curve, in microeconomic theory, a graph describing consumer preferences
  • Principle of indifference, in probability theory, a rule for assigning epistemic probabilities

Famous quotes containing the word indifference:

    “Adrift dissolving, bound for death;
    Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one—
    A lumbering lubbard loitering slow,
    Impingers rue thee and go down,
    Sounding thy precipice below,
    Nor stir the slimy slug that sprawls
    Along thy dead indifference of walls.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “The pessimist ... is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.”
    —Agnes Repplier (1858–1950)