Objectivity Quotes · Page 6

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

— Voltaire

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him

— Heinz von Foerster

“Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.”

— Elizabeth George

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

— Kyra Sedgwick

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

— Mike Patton

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

— Paul Biya

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

— Anthony de Mello

“Each one of us can aspire to be on TOP simply by keeping a strict focus on Time, Objectivity and Prioritising. As…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

“If you wish to know things better and understand their workings more profoundly, make sure that you keep yourself at a certain…

— Giannis Delimitsos

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends…

— Wyndham Lewis

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion…

— Dana Loesch

“Objectivity, in other words, is the absence of the self. Our desire to be right, as ego-driven as it often seems, is…

— Kathryn Schulz

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are…

— Simone Weil

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and…

— Brad Stone

There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and…

— Anthony Standen

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest…

— Clifford Geertz

“I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more…

— Lily King

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in…

— Don Cupitt

The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to…

— Gaston Bachelard

Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To…

— Robert A. Burton

“It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered…

— James K.A. Smith

“At the same time, it has to be recognized that the conditions for this objectivity are not easily won. They cannot rely…

— Michael F.D. Young

“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself…

— Karen Horney

It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive…

— Paul Feyerabend

If you're deeply engaged in an event, you're part of it. But if you're outside of it, disinterested, you are the regard…

— Cole Swensen

“Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example,…

— Bertrand Russell

“But first let me mention the second aid to understanding provided by science. We know today that in a physical experiment the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being…

— Fernando Pessoa

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

— Vladimir Kramnik

“Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.”

— Mark Frost

Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.

— Robert Bazell

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

— Christiane Amanpour

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

— Malik Yoba

Any objectivity of a subject contains subjective views of the object.

— UEK Multimedia Artist

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

— Josh Lanyon