Objectivity Quotes

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

— Ernest Gaines

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

— Jehane Noujaim

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

— Martin Short

Objectivity is the purpose of documentary filmmakers.

— Vivek Oberoi

There is no human objectivity.

— Robin DiAngelo

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

“Sometimes I do face failures, but I don't like failures.”

— Amit Kalantri

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

— Charlie Munger

“Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

— Christiane Amanpour

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

— Lin Yutang

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

“Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.”

— Barack Obama

“It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized…

— Michael Dirda

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can…

— Hal David

“We must warn against an incorrect conception of theology, a conception which considers it possible to discuss Holy Scripture apart from a…

— G C Berkouwer

“Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is…

— L.M. Montgomery

The difference between Koppell and Olberman types is that one gives editorializing in all its editorial frankness so there are no mistakes…

— Dana Loesch

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do…

— Edward Albee

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator…

— Manuel Puig

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of…

— John Perry Barlow

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It…

— Max Kozloff

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a…

— Vincent Bugliosi

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context…

— Jacques Derrida

Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual…

— Ian Anderson

It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In…

— Francoise Mouly

Speaking of honesty, if you're like me you turn on the news to get information - a set of facts. If you…

— S.E. Cupp

“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their…

— Robert C. Tucker

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain…

— Dan Simmons

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality…

— Kenny Smith

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

“If the media were honest, they would say, Look, here are the interests we represent and this is the framework within which…

— Noam Chomsky

“If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal…

— Jonathan Rauch

“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive…

— Joseph Heath

“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their…

— Thomas Gilovich