Partiality Quotes
40 quotes by 34 authors
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
— Ron Chernow
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If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the…
— Robert Collier
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It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our…
— Marquis de Sade
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
— James Russell Lowell
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
— Solon
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Partiality, in the sense that objectors commonly use the word, is impossible in the sphere of grace. It can exist only in the sphere of…
— Loraine Boettner
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,…
— William James
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The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you…
— John Wooden
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
— Wendell Berry
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of…
— Goldwin Smith
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
— Herman Wouk
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A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality,…
— Epicurus
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
— Roland Barthes
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Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There…
— Swami Vivekananda
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With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not…
— Thucydides
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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…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness…
— Dalai Lama
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The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.
— Confucius
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