Objectivity Quotes

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively.

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.

The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

Consider data without prejudice.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

You cannot see the mountain near.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

History is not hatred.

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

There are no sects in geometry.