#Objectivity Quotes

“The field cannot be seen from within the field.”

“Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.”

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

“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.”

“There are no sects in geometry.”

“You cannot see the mountain near.”

“Consider data without prejudice.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“There are no creeds in mathematics.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.”

“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.”

“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?”

“There are no personal sympathies in politics.”

“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.”

“History is not hatred.”

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

“Nature is not anthropomorphic.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.”

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

“Investigate what is, and not what pleases.”

“It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”